A surprising number of 'iPad Kids' are on X, study finds : technology

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This what we're calling gen alpha then?

Apple is gonna love that free advertising

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Is it really any worse than Gen X's symbol of youthful rebellion being a cable TV channel owned and operated by Viacom so they can advertise music that's been packaged up by the big three labels?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

I mean it's run by the biggest kid, so I guess it's understandable that they at least want to check out what their like-minded fellow is doing over there.

I hope they turn away in disgust.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 months ago (39 children)

You should have to actually validate your age to use social media and you should be required to be 18.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Easy and cheap access to anonymous, private, libre, and freedom-respecting computing is the inaliable human right of all hackers and future hackers.

I shouldn't even need an email to sign up, why do you think I'm here?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (26 children)

How do you validate age over the internet?

A drawing of two dogs and a computer desk, with text. One dog is on the computer chair with it's paw on the keyboard. The dogs are looking at each other. The text reads: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". looking

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

I found it interesting to see where Roblox falls off the chart.

[+] [email protected] -80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Let's introduce a national digital id to stop the kids accessing shit online. And to ensure that we need to make it linked to ur government id.

Edit: spelling

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What about we introduce more control from teachers and parents about what devices kids have access to, and give them some supervision too while we're at it?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So every person can be identified on whatever sites they do whatever they post.

That's China. Not America

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

You could very easily build the system to perform the age check without logging it to the user's ID since the check only needs to be performed once to create an account and just block anyone without one from seeing any of the content.

Estonia has digital ID based services and they aren't China. In fact China despises them because they've made the cutting edge in digital public services without having to compromise citizen privacy, which makes China look even worse for going out of their way to invade citizen privacy when it isn't even necessary to offer the same safety measures and services.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let's not be pieces of shit using "for the kids" to destroy basic privacy rights online.

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

But think of the children they must be protected we can't possibly expect parents to be responsible so the government must step in to ensure their safety.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Apparently about 10% of people are getting your sarcasm

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's sarcasm?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

We're at a pretty bad part where that type of sarcasm is someone else's legit stance.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah there's no way that could go wrong or be exploited by unscrupulous actors. Maybe parents should actually parent their kids? Extreme, I know.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

What could possibly go wrong. There definatly wouldnt be any authoritarian shit going on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

You'd what?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not even the fun kind of X. C'mon, iPad kids!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not enough x to be fun

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