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> There's going to be a newsworthy incident, soon, I'm sure of it. (1) https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/discord-child-safety-social-platform-challenge
by duped 3y ago
> There's going to be a newsworthy incident, soon, I'm sure of it.
(1) https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/discord-child-safety-social-platform-challenges-rcna89769 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/discord-child-safe...
What's interesting to me is that in twenty years we've gone from "use the internet with parental supervision, don't use your real name, and don't talk to strangers online" to making platforms pick up the slack of parents and law enforcement to prevent predators talking to kids.
Now I'm not saying that platforms like Discord shouldn't be doing a better job policing things, but it's also shocking to me how much the expectations of these platforms has changed in twenty years. AIM was way worse than Discord is today. Predators used to hang out on Runescape and Neopets. I feel like we're taking too much onus off of parents to monitor their kids online access.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoOld School Runescape is more alive than ever! Huge amount of predators there. Got my god sword scammed just yesterday!
- _chu1 3y agoI learned to not use my name online the hard way. I'm 15 now and I had poor opsec when people started getting mad at me on games or whatever else, and I use online personas on almost everything.
- FireBeyond 3y agoOh absolutely. When I was growing up, people looked back 20-30 years at the hornet's nest of predators at "nudist camps" and other such things that masqueraded under the umbrella of "peace love and mung beans". Now we look back at the world of AIM and ICQ and IRC as being just as bad.