It's amazing how all the things they are doing allegedly to protect kids will also be used by them to more efficiently prey on kids.
I wonder why that would be.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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What is it with Republicans and kids?
We need to PROTECT the Children by ALLOWING Corporations LEGAL PROTECTION to do WHATEVER they Want to Children!
-LITERALLY Every Single Republican Voter!
I feel like that is a sort of protection that should never, ever be granted under any circumstances. Like you'd better feel comfortable going in front of a judge and explaining how you made every reasonable effort to protect children or you need to stay the fuck away from children.
The problem isn't that Meta employed too few techniques to figure out if somebody was a child. The problem is they employed so much surveillance that they incidentally found out people were children and then they decided to abuse and exploit that information to their fiscal advantage.
It's an important distinction. I don't think we should encourage companies to collect detailed 3D scans of people's faces or their ID cards just to verify their ~~identity~~ age.
TBF the administration is trying to distract from the fact its leaders abuse kids. They are all just pretending. They have no care and plan no responsibility. Why should they? They know it will be tolerated.
They ask for merciful punishment without admitting the crimes?
When I figure out how best to run for a political position, no mercy will be given. Debating which route to go and can't really do 2026 as it's too late, but I'll be damned I'm so sick of big tech or corps getting breaks while the rest of us suffer.
Block people under age of 18 from using social media. Problem solved.
The problem with this is sounds great on paper until you explain how it's done... Which is everyone having to verify their age by submitting sensitive documents to random corporations that get breached all the time and hand over an easy way for governments to see absolutely everything someone does on the internet
Exactly. That will also cut off their pipeline of new addicts