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Absolutely not, we don't need any more of that. I've lived in Europe my entire life and things just got worse regulation wise. Every year it feels more and mor

Absolutely not, we don't need any more of that. I've lived in Europe my entire life and things just got worse regulation wise. Every year it feels more and more like living in a totalitarian regime. Social media is a tool like any other, the problem is that parents aren't there to educate kids. Oftentimes because both parents are working or because they're single parents.

ben_w 5y ago
In my childhood, half of Europe was literally a totalitarian regime, including the bit I moved to recently. I’ve been to the Stasi museum; I think they’d have lusted over the surveillance capacity of even just the data analytics in the tracking cookies whose cargo-culted consent [0] popups are merely the most visible consequence. Being able to read direct messages from or to any person, just by court order? Convincing everyone to take photos of everyone around them continuously, with location and time metadata added automatically by the camera, and having an AI that can recognise specific faces in the entire dataset? They’d think every charismas came at once. But the rules and regulations? Not so much. And I’m saying that even though there’s a few specific ones I’m quite unhappy about. [0] they’re not needed for things strictly necessary for functionality (like this website and GitHub), but if you do need them then you need non-coerced consent so the “no” needs to be as easy to click as the “yes”
- ben_w 5y ago
  > every charismas came at once And now I can’t edit it, I spot the typo; should be “every Christmas came at once.”