Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month
social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users
Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse
Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Now that blood is on the street, we still won’t admit you’ve been right all decade long while we scolded and marginalized you. Instead, we’ll declare it’s just now become right to say such things.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo ago"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa
some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit
Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · 7mo agoICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?" www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper
Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar.com · 7mo agoThe White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland. Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
The Hunger Games was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a handbook.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 8mo agoTrump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.
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Just to say that every age-verification is an identity verification. This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last yr.Anyhow, it's even worse it turns out. If you don't age-verify, they'll delete your account. www.howtogeek.com/spotify-will...
Who could have predicted? ... Except for basically everyone who has written on internet intermediary liability for the last two decades. Age verification debates are not just about kids, and they're not just about porn. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules
Tech companies are restricting debates of public interest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.
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Hello Bluesky. What's going on my "guys" and, in some cases, my "gals?"
Not enough people are angry about online age verification. The gov’t just gave ICE billions to expand surveillance and detention. Age checks give them a new attack vector to track what you read, watch, and say. 🧵Time to unpack this paper by @ericgoldman.bsky.social share.google/hVRvIPq4d1M8...
The "Segregate-and-Suppress" Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online
<div> In an effort to protect children online, regulators around the country and the world are enacting laws that compel Internet publishers to age-authenticat
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Jess Miers 🦝🦞@jmiers230.bsky.social · last yr.Having worked for Google, I completely understand bluesky's hand being forced to comply in the UK. Blame the regulators. But I also agree that there was an opportunity here for @bsky.app to at least push back on the rhetoric and highlight that age verification makes its users LESS safe.
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
The movement to employ Aaron Rogers is actually anti-winning
Magnum, T.I.(M.)@hydrationchimp.bsky.social · last yr.more proof that the trans rights movement is morally just
God, what have you done? You're a WOKE MARXIST POPE And you preach at the Vat Oh Papa, I'm just having fun On the balcony in my mitre It's where I belong down at the WOKE MARXIST POPE I'm gonna keep on preaching at the WOKE MARXIST POPE
"Hello, Secretary Rubio? Yes, great, so, listen, I have to report that a number of my coworkers appear to have been mocking my religion by serving money and not God, in direct violation of Matthew 6:24. I have a list of names here, to you have the next 7 or 8 hours free?"
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
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