We’re already living in a dystopia where billionaires control millions of people with addictive algorithms, and they desperately want to do the same to kids to train them early.
If anything, this makes it harder for kids to access the algorithm. Even if it saves 1% it’s a net positive. I don’t really care if a scrolling zombie already feeding all his data to a billionaire also gets surveilled by the government now. And what surveillance is that now? It’s just an app telling your year of birth to a social media site with your authorization.
The problem is that this is the worst way to go about it. The solution is not to bar people from accessing social media, but rather negate the incentive that makes big social addictive. Act on big business, not the citizen, go against power, not the powerless.
Big social isn’t profitable unless they’re tracking people. So they sure won’t stop doing that. It would be their ending.
And when the governments do act on something, people go on “muh rights” tirades online, like everyone here.
Literally acting like gun rights people when the government tries to regulate arms. And social media is a hell of a weapon right now. It would be strange to defend firearms for everyone, even for kids. People think firearms are freedom, cars are freedom, smoking in restaurants is freedom. Well, I’ve been here before social media and I know it isn’t freedom.
That being said… here, have an upvote because I agree with you.
We’re already living in a dystopia where billionaires control millions of people with addictive algorithms, and they desperately want to do the same to kids to train them early. If anything, this makes it harder for kids to access the algorithm. Even if it saves 1% it’s a net positive. I don’t really care if a scrolling zombie already feeding all his data to a billionaire also gets surveilled by the government now. And what surveillance is that now? It’s just an app telling your year of birth to a social media site with your authorization.
You should refuse to use social media at all.
The problem is that this is the worst way to go about it. The solution is not to bar people from accessing social media, but rather negate the incentive that makes big social addictive. Act on big business, not the citizen, go against power, not the powerless.
Big social isn’t profitable unless they’re tracking people. So they sure won’t stop doing that. It would be their ending.
And when the governments do act on something, people go on “muh rights” tirades online, like everyone here.
Literally acting like gun rights people when the government tries to regulate arms. And social media is a hell of a weapon right now. It would be strange to defend firearms for everyone, even for kids. People think firearms are freedom, cars are freedom, smoking in restaurants is freedom. Well, I’ve been here before social media and I know it isn’t freedom.
That being said… here, have an upvote because I agree with you.
@john_t @trollercoaster
“It’s just an app”. 🤦
You don’t want “government surveillance”? Fine by me.
I don’t want billionaire surveillance: “OMG Facepalm!!”
People are really sweet on the internet.