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Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says (www.politico.eu)

submitted 1 month ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/antisocialmedia@piefed.social

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Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.

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[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True, I guess I'm still holding out for that zero knowledge age verification. If I could just give the bouncer a slip that says "this person is old enough to party" they could staple that slip to their nightstand for all I care.

I don't see it technically being impossible to implement like that. Let's hope this age verification kerfuffle either dies down or shows us how you could tackle this without disrespecting all our privacy.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I think the bigger problem is that we are implementing a system that has been proven to be ineffective at solving the problem, yet the world is plowing ahead. All we've achieved is removing the liability for social media site operators. They can run cess pools of misinformation and child predation and wash their hands and say "whelp, the kids shouldn't be there, we have government approved age verification (also until thats proven to be zero knowledge we have even more personal data to use for marketing and sell on the data broker market)."