I think they were tricked tbh. It’s really hard to know how someone in distress should look like and it’s not really their job to decide who’s who. I’m not sure I would have done things differently

Yup dude was a terrible actor too

Human! Colorblind is the only way to go.

There is no race culture, period. There’s regional, community or occupational culture but having specific racial features does not magically alter your brain chemistry or define your identity.

Don’t fall for this stupid nonsense - be cosmopolitan, be colorblind.

I’ve lived in 8 countries by now and I can vouch that’s this is the only reasonable take.

It’s funny how all of these “silicon valley tech is running the world” conspiracy nuts are all silent now 😬

So is the manifesto allowed to be posted on .world?

Was banned for exactly that from .ml way before most were even on it. Remember Prismo, yeah you don’t. .ml admins are single-handedly responsible for why Lemmy adoption is so poor.

Btw, Lemmy logs are transparent so it wouldn’t even take that long to prove you wrong but I’m not wasting my time here on this mess. Do it yourself if you truly want to know or chose to live in your own bubble of ignorance.

I think many of european restriction laws make sense in local context to protect order. With so many countries and cultures squeezed into one area there’s incredible propaganda potential as we can see today. Europe definitely needs these laws but it should not extend to global spaces which are entirely different thing.

I know people want to celebrate the perish of a bad guy (me included) but if that endangers existance of lemmy.world then I think it’s fair to take this celebration somewhere else.

On the ehtics pov I’m not quite conviced that celebrating death is entirely unethical. Some people are bad and society is better without them and these Dutch, Finnish and German laws might make sense locally but definitely don’t make much sense in a global context.

Nah not a good comparison. Once there’s market people will find a way to easily corrupt this. Remember that this is a 3 way interaction: government, private company and private citizen - the opportunities for bypass are basically endless here. You are comparing it with a 2 way market between government and private citizen which has no incentive to break the system.

For something so menial like social media? That’s equivalent of tying your shoelaces in their eyes. I’m willing to bet you real money that this would be <1% of teenagers. If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised if this would have the opposite effect.

I’d really like to see a teenager who’d say “yes parent, I’ll not use Instagram because you told me not to”. People who pushed this law are so senile they frankly forgot what teenagers even are.

It’s technologically doable

I’d disagree here. Sure in theory you could design some system that authenticates every user on every connection but in practice it would be impossible to maintain without complete authoritarian oversight like North Korea. Even closed authoritarian countries fail to achieve this (like Iran or China).

This would cost billions of not trillions in implementation, oversight overhead and economic product loss. That money would be much more effective in carrot approach of supporting mental health institutions and promoting wholesome shared culture, anti bullying campaigns etc.

It’s not a new problem either. We know for a fact that the latter is the better solution and yet here we are…

So even in perfect scenario where this ban “works” it would still have zero intended effect as teens can consume all of that rubbish but not talk back and can jolly continue any harm on “allowed apps” like wtf is even this supposed to do lmao

The fact that people even considered this with a straight face, discussed it and passed it is just indicative how tech illiterate we’ve become.

it’s not a problem that can be solved by tech.

if you think AI software will be able to differentiate between a 15 year old and 16 year old then I have this cool bridge in Brooklyn that you might be interested in.

This is delusional to the point where it feels like we’re literally devolving.

I work with tech security and once a corporate blog post I wrote got from 1,000 monthly views to 100k because kids were looking up proxy tool guides and it was for Roblox lmao

This law is incredibly illiterate

but but that requires actually effort and budget that we’d have to take away from Australian oligarchs!

This isn’t even delegating. It’s more of an equivalent of stuffing your fingers into your ear holes and going “nanananan CAN’T HEAR YOU”

why would parents need a justification to parent?