France seeks to ID everyone using social media.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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I am fine with children not having access to social media but not at the cost of my privacy. If they could implement it without requiring me to submitted any identifying info just to watch some reels, then I'd be all for it.
Do it, save the youth.
Yea like as much as I'm concerned about government control etc... Social media is actively doing irreversible harm and needs to be treated like digital cocaine it is.
*France seeks to implement mass surveillance online by requesting age verification, but politicians wrap it in "we do it to protect the children" which is bullshit.
Protect your rights to privacy, stand up against such erosion of your rights.
"Protect children" bills never protect children
Sex offender registry?
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Whenever this comes up, it feels like a play to harvest people's data and / or to slip additional laws into place under the guise of "protect the children".
On one hand I don't think it's terrible to try to guide kids more. I think parents should be doing more parenting tbh. If a parent wants to put parental locks in place, they can. Even blocking specific sites from being accessed entirely. I think the bigger issue is people don't understand how to use computers so they think there's nothing they can do lol.
On the other I think it runs the risk of preventing kids from accessing information online, finding safe spaces online, and isolating kids more than they already can be. It also limits things like teaching kids about technology and how to use it safely.
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If headlines were honest: France seeks to prohibit early teenagers from social interaction with peers unless they are good at doing it offline.
If I hadn't had the Internet in the years before my 15th birthday, this would in my retrospective opinion have amounted to near torture.
Can we finally get politicians who grew up with the Internet into power? How many more years must people the age of Macron be allowed to make these kinds of decisions? 😟😡
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Wouldn't this just wind up being a de facto ban on the platform we're using right now? How could Lemmy implement an age verification system? If social media platforms that dont comply with age verification are banned, then by default there goes most of the fediverse.
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