EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.
I’m not necessarily against this. Right now, social media companies can knowingly target children with sophisticated conditioning techniques that can and will steer their cognitive development. Although they know for a fact that they are manipulating children, they hide behind plausible deniability.
I don’t like age verification, but I don’t see an alternative. Between the robots and the advanced manipulation techniques, something has to give.
No alternative? How about they start regulating the companies who are writing the algorithms.
They dont just hurt kids, they are detrimental to adults too, why allow the harmful companies to keep the status quo.
This has always been more about increasing policing of the internet and slowly de-anonomising anyone who is online.
I’m not necessarily against this. Right now, social media companies can knowingly target children with sophisticated conditioning techniques that can and will steer their cognitive development. Although they know for a fact that they are manipulating children, they hide behind plausible deniability.
I don’t like age verification, but I don’t see an alternative. Between the robots and the advanced manipulation techniques, something has to give.
No alternative? How about they start regulating the companies who are writing the algorithms.
They dont just hurt kids, they are detrimental to adults too, why allow the harmful companies to keep the status quo.
This has always been more about increasing policing of the internet and slowly de-anonomising anyone who is online.