135
Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
135 points (97.9% liked)
Technology
1421 readers
567 users here now
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original link
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
[email protected]
[email protected]
Icon attribution | Banner attribution
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I was jailbreaking my iPod when I was 11 and bypassing school computer restrictions. This isn't stopping anyone. I think even a vpn would simply bypass this
you'd be surprised at the technical capability of phone generations rather than pc generations
Technical aptitude is born of need. Of course this will limit most, but at least some will figure out bypasses.
I find it crazy how the IT departments at the various schools can't seem to understand the economics of it all. The more they lock it down the more motivated the students become to break it. It also doesn't help that schools are censorship hell.
I am less concerned with stopping young people from accessing the web then with general awareness of people about the damaging mental side effects of technology.
Those side effects are usually long term, an account and a few online interactions wont harm much. But a habit will.
If my kids hacks trough my infrastructure i will shine with IT pride… and then update my infrastructure explaining them why it is i am so concerned.
I know they will find ways outside my walled garden but keeping them in was never the point, providing a safe space to live to develop healthy habits is.
I tormented the crap out of my middle schools IT guy. He couldn't figure out how I managed to bypass the GPOs. Spoiler: the group policy was at the user level which made it easy to unapply.
They may require real-world credentials for account creation to prevent that from happening.
It also gives parents assurance that they arent crazy for wanting to limit their kids access to these hell sites.
These parents should realize that they might run into it.
In a couple (maybe most at this point idk) EU countries you can use your ID in combination with your phones NFC and an open source app to prove certain parameters like age to sites, without giving up any identifying information. This is what should be used here and not fucking bank accounts.