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If they doing this might as well ban books also for harmful content to children:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

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[-] Senal@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

It being a real and powerful motivational force means it's one of the more useful covers.

Just because it motivates the voters/customers doesn't mean it's the genuine reason behind a decision.

I cannot think of a single recent "think of the children" based action that was intended to and actually helped the children in a meaningful way.

Can you?

[-] FishFace@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

I cannot think of a single recent “think of the children” based action that was intended to and actually helped the children in a meaningful way.

Are you judging the motivation purely based on the effects? Otherwise, how are you working out what goes on inside people's heads?

I think given that we all agree that there are voters who think this will protect children makes it crazy to think that politicians must somehow know better. It is well-accepted online that politicians are out-of-touch when it comes to technology, so it's not like they understand the subject of this article.

[-] Senal@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Are you judging the motivation purely based on the effects? Otherwise, how are you working out what goes on inside people’s heads?

A combination of the effects, the prior actions, reactions and consequences of the subject and others in similar categories/contexts (to the extent i actually know/pay attention).

I don't know of another way of performing predictive analysis.

Also that didn't answer the question.

I think given that we all agree that there are voters who think this will protect children makes it crazy to think that politicians must somehow know better. It is well-accepted online that politicians are out-of-touch when it comes to technology, so it’s not like they understand the subject of this article.

I'm genuinely not sure what you are saying here, but i'll go line by line, tell me if I'm reading it incorrectly.

I think given that we all agree that there are voters who think this will protect children makes it crazy to think that politicians must somehow know better.

I don't know what this means, there are voters who genuinely believe this, yes, i think i follow that bit.

I'm not sure what you think is crazy here (i'm not disagreeing, i just don't understand) , do you mean to say the politicians do or don't know better ?

It is well-accepted online that politicians are out-of-touch when it comes to technology, so it’s not like they understand the subject of this article.

This i agree with, i can also anecdotally add first hand experience of the consequences of such lack of understanding.

Not sure how it ties in to the other sentence though.

[-] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

politicians must somehow know better.

No, no, the accusation is that politicians are lying.

Let's phrase this another way. Asking every single website in existence to implement and maintain an ID database and monitoring system is expensive, yes? So, why wouldn't private companies shift some of this responsibility off to a 3rd party who specializes specifically in this service?

If I were google, I would:

  • One, be very excited about tying a user's account analytics to their government personhood; can't multiple-credit-cards your way out of that one.
  • And two, already be looking at my own 3rd-party user login service as a means of beating out all competition in this space.

The only thing left to do is lobby. Politicians might not have this vision, but they do understand really expensive dinners.

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