Privacy

@FiniteBanjo@feddit.online @privacy@programming.dev

First of all, my comment very clearly says the internet needs to remain anonymous, and what I mean by that is any age information you give a company should be voluntary and by its nature unverifiable.

In this regard I agree with you.

By social media I was referring to large communities: things such as Facebook, posting and commenting on YouTube, forum aggregators like Reddit and Mbin, etc. Basically, those entities shouldn’t be allowed to offer those services or knowingly provide them to minors.

Back in the days, Orkut was a large social media, especially here in Brazil where I exist. Orkut communities were a pretty popular feature, and there were several nice communities involving tech and programming, science, etc.

I learned a lot of things back then, thanks to Orkut communities. But I was a minor at the time, so if Orkut weren't to provide for minors the intellectual connection that shaped the nerd I am today, I wouldn't have the same amount of knowledge-pursuit drive, let alone the knowledge itself (or this biological existence, as I explicitly said how I'd have been committed suicide having nowhere else to mentally let go from my childhood nightmares).

Although... your suggestion about having limited features for minors (e.g. no video calls) while still allowing them in, is something I could sort of agree with.