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Maybe it depends on how you frame it. > Social media is destroying children's brains! Do you want access to be delayed until a certain age? > Do you want chil
by roundabout-host 3mo ago
Maybe it depends on how you frame it.
> Social media is destroying children's brains! Do you want access to be delayed until a certain age?
> Do you want children under a certain age to be banned from social media, which means that you will now have to give your ID, only with Android or iOS?
- anal_reactor 3mo ago> only with Android or iOS 99% of people understand this as "you need a smartphone" which is not a problem in 2026, even for the elderly.
- roundabout-host 3mo ago"only if you choose to share your personal data with either Google or Apple"?
- anal_reactor 3mo agoHow is that different from having a banking app installed? Or a government ID app?
- afandian 3mo agoYou can survive and be exist in society without both.
- roundabout-host 3mo agoWhat you can do with the ID app, you can also do on paper (if not with a Web service), except "age verification".
- kevin_thibedeau 3mo agoI have neither. Phones are too much of a security liability to be linked into such sensitive realms of personal life.
- duskdozer 3mo agoI don't think it's going to be any more convincing with that. At this point anyone I encounter in "normal" life already assumes that I and everyone else has and primarily uses a Google or Apple account.
- Hackbraten 3mo agoLinux-based smartphones exist. Are they going to be e-waste?
- netsharc 3mo agoImagine if the requirements were instead "You need to have a phone with an OS controlled by Huawei"... do you see the issue there? Maybe 99% of people have surrendered to Google/Apple (include me there), but the 1% has a valid point...
- roundabout-host 3mo agoIndeed, it is just as unfair no matter if 1%, 55% or 99.99% of the affected population has one. Your operating system should be a choice. 1. By doing this, the EU is killing any alternative operating systems for phones: no one will switch to one if they can't access online services. Banks are already making it extremely hard. 2. Google and Apple might be better regarded than Huawei, but they are not moral (or they are not guaranteed to remain so). 3. The very idea of a de facto state-enforced monopoly on operating systems is outrageous.