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China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

They probably saw the Russian culture war brain rot play out with American youth and decided to have a circuit breaker.

Behind the Bastards has an episode about how YouTube went right wing to create site engagement and an anger economy, and an episode about Facebook doing thr same for boomers.

Some governments are looking into limiting those influences.

EDIT: oh yeah, China might also be protecting children from hearing about the periodic stabbing attacks that happen at schools over there. Forgot about those.

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[+] [email protected] -28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can't take seriously articles about the Internet that don't even capitalize "Internet" correctly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why would it be capitalized? There's only a few words in the English language, that are capitalized. And "internet" isn't one of them, as it's just a normal noun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You and I are posting on the Fediverse right now (capital F). If I create two of my own personal Lemmy instances that only federate with each other, they're not a part of the Fediverse. I've now created my own fediverse (lower-case F). The Fediverse is a fediverse, but not all fediverses are the Fediverse.

Same with internet and Internet. There is the main, collective Internet that we all know and use daily, but it's one of many internets.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I suspect it could be seen as a proper noun.

If Acme and FooCorp create a bridge between their private network spaces, it's an internet (common noun) but not the Internet (proper noun, referring to the one with Goatse).

Let's find an English teacher. And yell at them for forcing us to read the same terrible novel in both 10th and 12th grades. Maybe after that, return to this subject.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I've been on the internet since like 1992 and I've never once capitalized it, and I don't think I've ever seen it capitalized. shrug