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I would expect more outrage but it seems people are burned out/don’t care?

by groan 3mo ago

Roark66 3mo ago
Here in Poland people will start caring when this verification will be anything other that charge your (debit) card some amount. No one will accept using their official electronic ID with Facebook etc If that is how they implement it I expect a massive exodus from these platforms.
- jupr 3mo ago
  I agree with that. Platforms have continuously added more and more things to create accounts, and the history shows that people submit and give up pretty easily. I think it's a jump to take that historic metric and expect the same results with ID verification...but we shall see. I certainly don't know anyone in my peer group who would submit ID for account access. By the time the kids can finally sign up for there great shiny social media account with valid ID, hopefully something better has taken its place with roots pointing towards the old ways of the internet.
phatfish 3mo ago
Outrage against what? That age restrictions haven't been enforced sooner? I read an article where some children were asked about their social media use. A few made the point that they just felt crap after a scrolling session. I think everyone here knows what it's like to realise you just lost an hour to two of potential productive time to HN. And this is just a text site. Social media is engineered to steal your attention and feed you junk, divisive information. Why on earth would we allow kids to become addicted to that?
watwut 3mo ago
People stopped trusting tech industry and stopped seeing it as something that helps or good or better then politicians. Majority of its complains about freedom and what not are not really about freedom are self serving bullshit and its actively trying to cause harm. Tech industry is really good at blaming the user while spending millions on making the user do what they are blaming them for. So, result is that people at best don't care. They see the whole fight as basically assholes vs assholes ... and tech is perceived as bigger assholes.
- inigyou 3mo ago
  Did they really? Everyone I know trusts the tech industry.

I would expect more outrage but it seems people are burned out/don’t care?

by groan 3mo ago

I would expect more outrage but it seems people are burned out/don’t care?

Here in Poland people will start caring when this verification will be anything other that charge your (debit) card some amount. No one will accept using their official electronic ID with Facebook etc If that is how they implement it I expect a massive exodus from these platforms.

jupr 3mo ago
I agree with that. Platforms have continuously added more and more things to create accounts, and the history shows that people submit and give up pretty easily. I think it's a jump to take that historic metric and expect the same results with ID verification...but we shall see. I certainly don't know anyone in my peer group who would submit ID for account access. By the time the kids can finally sign up for there great shiny social media account with valid ID, hopefully something better has taken its place with roots pointing towards the old ways of the internet.

phatfish 3mo ago

Outrage against what? That age restrictions haven't been enforced sooner? I read an article where some children were asked about their social media use. A few made the point that they just felt crap after a scrolling session. I think everyone here knows what it's like to realise you just lost an hour to two of potential productive time to HN. And this is just a text site. Social media is engineered to steal your attention and feed you junk, divisive information. Why on earth would we allow kids to become addicted to that?

watwut 3mo ago

People stopped trusting tech industry and stopped seeing it as something that helps or good or better then politicians. Majority of its complains about freedom and what not are not really about freedom are self serving bullshit and its actively trying to cause harm. Tech industry is really good at blaming the user while spending millions on making the user do what they are blaming them for. So, result is that people at best don't care. They see the whole fight as basically assholes vs assholes ... and tech is perceived as bigger assholes.

inigyou 3mo ago
Did they really? Everyone I know trusts the tech industry.