and even dating apps
even?
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Damn so I can't set my dating preference to from 9 to 14 anymore :( Will have to settle for 16 year olds /s
Dammit not the dating apps!
How will Ted Cruz find dates now?
Oh no
The comments here seem to be missing a salient point.
In order to determine if a user is under 16, you need to determine that for every single user .. including you!
This means that your personal data will be harvested in order to determine if you are over 16 or not.
Maybe people over 16 shouldn't be on the internet either
gotta keep the kids safe from pinterest lmao
Can we keep me safe from Pinterest? I would really like to exclude it from my search results on a permanent basis without having to explicitly filter it in my query.
I've got Pinterest filtered out of searches, this has been a feature of kagi for ages
You joke but pedophiles use Pinterest to stalk and coerce young girls.
Investigation: How Pinterest drives men to little girls' images - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/pinterest-algorithm-young-girls-videos-grown-men-investigation-rcna72469
oh wow this is crazy.
github? really?
I met my wife on GitHub. (/s)
You weren't scared to commit
to those wondering "why Github?" because it's not about protecting 16 year olds doing pull requests it's about getting YOUR data/IDs. They don't know whose under 16 or over 16 to access said sites so they need the IDs of EVERYONE. that's all this is. it has nothing to do with protecting kids.
If I was a government or some firm that harvets Data I would absolutely drool at potentially having a source that is Github to get said info. I would LOVE to harvest info of developers, coders, etc.
Yep, they get your ID and can associate your account and activity to your person. These are always anti-privacy laws, not "protect the children" laws. That's just what they say to get people to give up their freedoms.
How about we just stick them all in airtight lead-lined boxes? Then they'll be truly safe.
Github? Wtf.
You must be 18 or older to submit a PR
That's a weird list. I've never considered GitHub to be social media.
Anything is social media if you try to censor hard enough.
And there we have it, a manipulative government that grins at the fact that we all let this oppression to go through.
This is all a result of our naivety, we let our age discrimination to prosper, and now we're going to be left with big brother watching our every move.
The world is going to shit
Is Australia trying to out-OSA the UK here? Steam is a fucking store front, GitHub is a place where you put Code, and Under Sixteens shouldn't be allowed on Dating Apps anyway. What the fuck?
I mean, Steam does have a large social aspect as well. Community content is often aimed at the 16+ crowd. Hell, I’ve been called the n-word by 11 year olds multiple times on Steam. Denying that Steam has social media is just disingenuous.
Uhuh, and who uses steam as a social media site in practice outside of comments in the workshop?
Steam has the Community where user interaction and user generated content can be posted.
By that logic the following sites are social media sites:
- Wikipedia
- OpenStreetMap
- News sites with comment sections
- Duolingo
- Amazon
God help you if they agegate Wikipedia because that's the point you bring out the pitchforks.
youre making the common mistake of thinking these laws are coherent
Good luck age-gating the local copies of Wikipedia for anyone who downloaded it.
Doesn't it already include YouTube and TikTok?
Edit: Yes, it does. Misleading title is misleading.
That is a list of things that are social media, or have aspects of the platform that are social, and contain UGC.
And Pornhub