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What does this ban actually mean? As I understand it, it bans kids from creating an account. They can still doom scroll or waste their life watching reels with
by nottorp 1y ago
What does this ban actually mean?
As I understand it, it bans kids from creating an account. They can still doom scroll or waste their life watching reels without a login, don't they?
This may push social media back to making their content accessible without an account :)
- rhcom2 1y agoAt least for Twitch that means they can't give money to streamers making a small country's GDP a month.
- squigz 1y agoShould kids be able to buy, say, an athlete's or celebrity's merchandise?
- oompty 1y agoAlmost all streamers have some thirdparty "tip/donation" system set up (usually streamelements/streamlabs via paypal or stripe, sometimes also giving some TTS effects on stream) so that's still possible.
- crtasm 1y ago>streamelements/streamlabs I tried donating via one of these a while ago and got stopped by a requirement to link a Twitch account. Could you give an example of a donation page on there without that requirement?
- squigz 1y agoI'm pretty sure Twitch/YT handles the payment processing; StreamElements/StreamLabs only provides things like the TTS stuff
- crtasm 1y agoThey run their own donations platform as far as I can tell, you can add various payment processors: https://streamlabs.com/donations https://streamlabs.com/donations
- andrewinardeer 1y agoAnd social media companies are compelled to deactivate any existing <16 years old accounts. Not just creating.