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[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 106 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Man with child pornography machine is angry because people don’t want children to be on his platform

[–] Only_Slightly_Bent@lemmy.world 93 points 2 months ago
[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 71 points 2 months ago

Guy who owns hate machine that lets you virtually undress children upset that guardrails are being erected to protect children.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 62 points 2 months ago

Elon didn't buy an entire social media platform and turn it into a pedo playground just to watch all the children leave.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

he also said, β€œWhat day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I still have to laugh every time i see that photo. I remember when i saw it for the first time and thought it's not okay to make fun of that disabled dude.

Raw sexual energy.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

It's funny. Suddenly another photo comes to my mind... But in black and white.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, so this guy said something?

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

The Great riddle: Is it "takes one to know one" or "deflection by projection"? (I lean towards the latter)

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 months ago

Elon Musk is a cunt who needs to fuck off back to Pretoria.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's just angry he can't prey on them with the social media service he bought that creates pictures of naked children.

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Can we stop needlessly sharing Elmo's deranged utterances? The topic of social media policy (much as anything else) is too important than to concern ourselves with his weird tweets.

[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 13 points 2 months ago

He's right, we should outright ban X entirely in EU. Besides some right wing extremists, no one will care.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ok Elon is a dick but I've also yet to see a single age verification plan that isn't just 'give every social media company a picture of your ID so they can put it in a poorly secured database that gets hacked 3 times a week'

Elon's not arguing against surveillance capitalism though, he just wants to keep the Hitler Youth App running

[–] friedmag@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Agreed they don't seem to get used, but they exist. My state has a digital ID now that can verify age (bracket), and a picture with date. That's not bad - less than ideal for a website that doesn't need my picture, but perfect for a bar (clearly the intent).

It could so easily be done if that was the actual intent.

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Who cares what a delusional midwit mass social criminal says or thinks? Let him scratch it on his cell wall in supermax.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Broken clock is right, but for the wrong reasons (i.e. like a broken clock).

age-gating social media = obligatory ID verification for social media access

Do you trust your government to handle your ID data safely and in a way that law enforcement etc. can't access without proper cause? This is definitely going to get used to do police raids and years-long device seizures on people who call dick politicians dicks - the process is the punishment.

If you actually want to protect children, force operating system manufacturers or home internet hardware manufacturers to implement child filters that work reliably.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I trust Microsoft even less with ID and tracking information.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago

Child filters isn't nearly enough. It's the addictive nature of the apps, created by algorithms that are cooked up by psychiatrists, behavioral scientists, and experimentally and iteratively "improved" by AI - algorithms that could potentially be used for other things than just making an app "sticky"

You're right about the privacy concerns, but the conclusion should be to have rules so strict that it is practically banning X, Meta, TikTok, et.c.

[–] teeaa@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Your government likely already has your ID data that law enforcement can see. I much rather trust the government (or banking systems like in Finland) to handle the age verification than some private enterprises that can be hacked and the information stolen, like already happened with Discord.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 5 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Do you trust your government to handle your ID data safely and in a way that law enforcement etc. can’t access without proper cause? This is definitely going to get used to do police raids and years-long device seizures on people who call dick politicians dicks - the process is the punishment.

The government **already **handle your ID data.
It has your document id number, SSN equivalent (in Italy Codice Fiscale), the number of your driver license, the number of your passport, know where you live, know where you work and know any other information about you that allow it to identify you, they issued most of them, they know them.

If you actually want to protect children, force operating system manufacturers or home internet hardware manufacturers to implement child filters that work reliably.

It was proven times and again that filters are useless.
Man, they where useless back at the time where the filter at the newsstand was a person that could check you id before selling you pornographic journals and they are useless today where you need to be 18 to buy alcohol.
The only real solution is to educate the children, which require educated parents.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Has the guy finally realized he's still a visionary? After all, you're usually on the right track if you do the exact opposite of what this jerk says. So maybe that's the best approach here.

I'm not a fan of this proposal, because it can only be implemented with age verification, which we all know what that entails, but if he's against it, you almost have to be for it.

Nah, better not. The right thing to do is ignore all his pronouncements and make sure everyone finally leaves his goddamn self-aggrandizing platform - and that he spends his twilight years deservedly in prison.

In any case: Fuck this pedophile piece of shit.

[–] Klimaschutz@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His daughter says, he's wrong.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

His son punched him in the face and gave him a black eye.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

Huh, I was actually unsure weather I liked this law but now I am sure, that I like it.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If teens and preteens aren't on social media, how will the pedo-rape crew that hung out with Jefferey Epstein groom them online? Someone please think of the poor, downtrodden richest man on earth, for ONCE PLEASE.

[–] BigShammy80@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

This comes to mind

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Where is the ICE when you need it?

[–] Shamber@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Shitting out of his mouth you mean?!

[–] Absinthe3858@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I bet he did

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

tyrant calls an idiot a tyrant.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does that mean that PSOE is.. The good one?

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

On this one, yes. On other things...

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

This guy needs to seriously go. Fucking hell.

We have built such a fucking pathetic society.

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