DefederateLemmyMl

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  • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO saysEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The laws can absolutely be written such that companies are required to suspend service to any suspected child without requiring ID to use the service.

    The laws shouldn’t focus on “harming children” so much, but on “harming humans”.

    The big tech companies should be held responsible for the actual damage they are inflicting upon society, and their methods to artificially inflate “engagement” (or whatever the hell they call it) should be held to scrutiny. Whether or not the damage is inflicted upon an underage person or an adult, is merely a distraction.

    Those assholes would love it if we all had to identify ourselves and prove our age, if it means they get to keep inflicting their shit upon us.