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Germany Moves Closer to a Social Media Ban for Those Under 16
- victorbjorklund 9mo agowild you will be able to drink alcohol before you can have a YouTube account.
- squirrel6 9mo agoOr this kind of regulatory pressure will cause these businesses to stop adding social media functionality into their scope
- letier 9mo agoYou need to be 16 to drink beer or wine, so you will be able to do both at the same age.
- loopback_device 9mo ago14, if you're with a parent / old enough sibling / legal guardian, and they consent to it.
- letier 9mo agoWow. I didn’t know about this.
- travisporter 9mo agocomment made me think! I'm old so this was true since youtube didn't get big until i was in my 30s, so maybe it is a good thing :)
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- general1465 9mo agoI can see fragmentation of social media landscape, because children and teenagers will want to have their socials anyway so they will start using smaller and smaller providers or they will be forced to create their own microsocial networks. It might be a business opportunity to have something ready and then sell teens white label application for small fee of server hosting. Or they can go even further and have it P2P decentralized like bitchat.
- wasmainiac 9mo ago> It might be a business opportunity to have something ready and then sell teens white label application for small fee of server hosting. Jeez, you know we want our children to get away from this crap to begin with. Many parents are talking about reducing their kids social media exposure and want more friction to access. You sound like the school yard drug dealer.
- general1465 9mo agoI mean isn't an elegant way how to bypass this regulation - teenagers running their own social networks only with their friends? If you will make it P2P nobody except them have control of their data. That sounds like a killer feature. I wonder if this is just rambling of mine or if somebody will really pull this off.
- wasmainiac 9mo ago> control of their data. This isn’t about privacy, it’s about the addictive design of social media.
- NekkoDroid 9mo agoPart of which is the massive nature of current social media platforms. Having way smaller/localer ones would most certainly also reduce the addictiveness of them.
- general1465 9mo ago
- jasonvorhe 9mo agoDigital ID will show who values their sovereignty. If you're willing to scan your face for a social network, you'll scan your face for everything else as well. Welcome to the dystopian timeline.
- luke5441 9mo agoLuckily we have a digital id system that would preserve your privacy in Germany, so you'd not have to scan your face. All the social media site would get would be "is over 18". I concede that you'd have to trust that the id systems real identity => per site pseudo id mapping is not disclosed to anyone.
- jasonvorhe 9mo agoLast time I read into this was when they introduced the first generation of these passports. You probably still need custom gov-certified hardware and some java application to make use of it?
- luke5441 9mo agoWorks with NFC and AusweisApp on reasonably modern phones.