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I don't have a horse in this race but in my opinion a more graceful way to deal with this is to freeze the account until the under-16 is over-16 so they don't l
by LinuxBender 2y ago
I don't have a horse in this race but in my opinion a more graceful way to deal with this is to freeze the account until the under-16 is over-16 so they don't lose their friend connections, history, etc... The under 16 should have time to add a comment saying how to contact them otherwise. Discord group, etc... There must be a reason to remove the account that I can not see.
- dyauspitr 2y agoIdeally they do lose all of that. That’s the root of the problem.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> Ideally they do lose all of that. That’s the root of the problem. Where is the problem with this? The problem rather is that the user did not create a private backup of the data that he wants to keep.
- kranner 2y agoPossible contact with pedophiles, groomers, etc. Once the child is over 16, they can add all their real-world friends again.
- LinuxBender 2y agoCould a possible solution there be to use the same language detection platforms used for detecting terrorist activity to also flag possible grooming for human moderator review? Or might that be too subjective for current language models leading to many false positives?
- Hizonner 2y agoAKA stupid paranoia.
- acdha 2y agoThis is far too pat a dismissal of something which happens regularly. You can argue that it’s not frequent enough to justify this action or would happen anyway through other means but it’s a real problem which isn’t so freakishly rare that we can dismiss it.
- johnisgood 2y agoDiscord is for people over 13 years of age in many countries, yet there are many minors there. It is not working.
- acdha 2y agoI’m not saying anything about specific services, only that there is a legitimate concern which can’t simply be dismissed without reason.
- johnisgood 2y agoI am not sure I meant to reply to you, to be honest. It is an issue but so far the solutions are terrible. Outsourcing parenting to the Government or companies is also meh. I am sure there are parents who know of ways to reduce screen time for their children, it ranges from installing a program that does not let you on a website or start another program until and unless this and that, or take the phone from the kid's hand and go for a walk or study, whatever.
- gus_massa 2y agoIt may include all my friends from primary school and a photos of my late grandma. (Disclaimer: I'm so old that at 16 I didn't ever had email. Please don't delete all my old stuff.)
- dec0dedab0de 2y agoI thought the problem was the addictive nature of the feed