bumbling_bee

Perimenopause. Sheesh, warn a girl! (And her significant other).

The comments are gold 😂

Grew up in an extreme right wing ‘Christian’ church. It never sat well, even as a kid/teen. I don’t know if I ever considered I was fascist, but certainly had to unlearn a lot of internalised thought patterns. Ended up leaving centralised media a few months ago after realising how much alt-right content was being pushed in my face despite following mostly left leaning accounts and queer creators.

The article is so close to talking about why the censorship is happening. I really wish I was making this up, but read about the ‘seven mountains mandate’. Christian nationalists have a censorship agenda and this is part of it. No they really don’t want Americans talking about the news.

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Oooh which skit? (Fellow Aussie here 😂). Also we need a word for this particular brand of worry, autistiworry? Autistanalysis - the deep analysis of anything you say, particularly online, in order to not make mistakes, usually resulting in not participating at all.

She's a chocolate seal point Devon Rex. Its very fleecy, sooo snuggly!

If kids want to be on social media badly enough, they will find a way regardless of approval and permission from their parents. They get banned from Meta and TikTok, they just band together and move to an app not on the list. I agree that people need to know if something is harmful. All the effort and money going into a ban, would've been better spent on media literacy and education on how algorithms work, and the addictive nature of some platforms. This is the reason why none of my kids are interested in most social media. Because they know how awful it is. YouTube is a bit more grey, IMO. I filter out shorts for my kids, but they've learned a lot of stuff over the years. Yet Roblox isn't banned? That should've been top of the list. Identity verification is a privacy and security nightmare. People should not be required to provide their identity to participate in discussions, or even worse, use their own device.

Yep. I've since deleted it, but I had to verify my identity on my FB account, which i'd had since 2008. Math is a thing 🙄.

They learned from countries like Australia huh? Australian here, did they learn how much its not working 😂🙄! None of my kids have anything other than YouTube, but my 9yo knew how to get around it. He doesn't because he just watches in a browser with ad blockers and we monitor it. My high schooler reports the many and varied ways kids just changed where they go online to continue their crap. Do I think under 16s should be on social media, no. But identity verification is not going to fix that.

Taking photos.

Hopefully. It'll be both good an bad. Do the majority of people know it exists? Or was it just me living under a rock until a few weeks ago 😂?