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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 31 minutes ago

Saving the children vs creating a dystopia where your phone tells you what to do, what to think,…

Now add a few years, were running out of food and water, the planet is on fire. Guess who’s getting acces? Only people with a phone that says they’ve been good obedient peons who have no opinions of their own.

Take a wild guess which is of more importance to the big club? They’ve already proven they’re PERFECTLY ok working with pedofiles. Hell, a lot of them ARE the pedofiles.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 6 points 3 hours ago

That's because snowflakes like zuck want to know who is calling him a cunt and when. Shove it your ass you sick stalker.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I’m not sure that what this article is claiming follows. Your device providing a token which confirms you’re an adult doesn’t imply that your real name will be provided to anybody, any more than, say, my banking app using my phone’s FaceID implies that that app has access to my biometric data

To me, age verification on-device make the most sense precisely because it allows for it to be secure and maintaining of privacy

The alternative is providing every site with your biometric data, photos of your documents like driving license, or both. Or that there’s some random third party which you give that data to and who then stores it on some server somewhere the security of which we can only guess at

I know sind will be tempted to say that it shouldn’t be happening at all and that it’s not about protecting kids and so on. But no matter how much we say that it _ is_ happening. This is what the new reality will be. The only question is where you want the scan of your face to be stored. Personally, I’d rather it be encrypted on my device

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 8 points 4 hours ago

Ah so Bots and Ai shit needs to identify itself as well? Of course not, it's just an excuse (save the children) to do more surveillence rather than helping anyone.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

Maybe we split the internet. Privacy concerned people could use something like gemini

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It was never about "child safety". It always was about making users more transparent, and therefore more intimidatable and controllable.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 29 minutes ago

Of course. Whenever you hear that it's to "protect the children," you know we're about to get screwed.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Well, yeah. That was the plan from the start. Let's not be the "dumb fucks" who just "trust him" with personal data this time.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

No thanks, I'm good.

He's already made his money. He needs to just retire and quit fucking things up for everyone.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

This, really, is what gets me about billionaires. Literally any of them could have just faded into obscurity years ago, lived a life of abject luxury and never had a single worry. Or, they could have spent like 10% of their wealth on improving things for society as a whole, and everyone would have loved them for it. But no - they all had to just focus on hoarding more and more and making things worse and worse for everyone else. It's fucking baffling to me.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 17 minutes ago

It shouldn't be baffling, it's obvious what the problem is. These people have crippling OCD, which manifests itself as financial hoarding. These people have more money than they or their descendants could ever spend, and yet they are compelled to make more and more, and even pay to reconfigure the government so they can make even more.

If these people were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old appliances, or newspapers, etc. to the point where it is negatively impacting all those who live around them, then the authorities would step in, clean it up, and get help for that person.

But not financial hoarders. They are lauded as successful business people, and they get full cooperation from the government in service to their OCD. Their crimes are overlooked, and are sometimes even turned into laws. They are encouraged to DEMAND more money from the government for no reason at all, and it is almost always granted.

Donald Trump has it worst of all, and we allowed him to become president, even though his obvious and mind-boggling mental illness is on full display at all times.

These people are severely mentally ill, and our government encourages their mental illness. The way to handle someone like that is to STOP their behavior, not coddle it, especially when it is actively doing so much damage.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

They want ever more power and control. Money is just a tool to get that. Most billionaires are sociopaths.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Imagine this happening and Facebook will somehow still be an AI sloptrough.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 60 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Don't forget home routers have something called parental controls.

This would put all the power of online safety back into a parents hands and maintain all privacy online for the general public and ones children as well.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 39 points 10 hours ago

What are you talking about? You think this is some kind of game where we all have to be responsible for ourselves, and create solutions that serve everybody? Get real!

This is Earth! Where the elite make all the rules, and those rules aren't based on logic, or problem solving. They're based on what will make the elite the most money!

So you bet your ass when Mark Facebook Zuckerberg pitches an idea, he's doing so to steal your data, and figure out how to create a problem that needs fixing, which can just so happen be fixed with privacy invasion! Yaaaay! Isn't capitolism grand?

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago

The market has made clear how it feels about consumer freedom. Every consumer option is lost revenue to them.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 11 hours ago

Phones, tablets & computers have it too.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 points 11 hours ago

And to ensure that everyone has a router… everyone will be given a state issued router with personal identification that they must use.