@giacomo All good except the mistaken suggestion that #KOSA could make anything better. KOSA would prevent any effective access to privacy, including the minimum necessary to bypass ideological censorship or to stay safe from abusively controlling parents, while also facilitating government censorship and wholesale identity theft against adults.
It would render Signal and Mastodon—two of the most important technologies for free expression—unlawful.
Prohibiting addiction-oriented algorithms would be beneficial. However, enforcing online age verification (as opposed to on-device parental controls) is always harmful: in a multitude of ways.
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So "prohibiting #addiction-oriented algorithms" is in no way enough: we need to make their application unfeasable.
Let's ban any centralized #SocialNetworks.
Let's outlaw any software that transfer one bit of data more than what is demonstrably required to fulfill users' request.
Let's completely ban #cookies, software fingerprinting, tracking, targeted ads and everything that fluel #SurveillanceCapitalism.
Let's ban "free services" based users' data collection and users' manipulation, starting from #GMail free tiers.
Let's break #BigTech like #Google or #Meta so that they cannot both provide services to users and sell ads or data.
This will work.
#AgeVerification is just giving these companies further data point even on people they cannot directly spy. It will further damage worldwide societies and #democracy withou any benefit to kids and other vulnerable people.
Prohibiting addiction-oriented algorithms would be beneficial.You can't wait for whistlebowers to be sure the algorithm employed are designed to addict.
So "prohibiting #addiction-oriented algorithms" is in no way enough: we need to make their application unfeasable.
Let's ban any centralized #SocialNetworks.
Let's outlaw any software that transfer one bit of data more than what is demonstrably required to fulfill users' request.
Let's completely ban #cookies, software fingerprinting, tracking, targeted ads and everything that fluel #SurveillanceCapitalism.
Let's ban "free services" based users' data collection and users' manipulation, starting from #GMail free tiers.
Let's break #BigTech like #Google or #Meta so that they cannot both provide services to users and sell ads or data.
This will work.
#AgeVerification is just giving these companies further data point even on people they cannot directly spy. It will further damage worldwide societies and #democracy withou any benefit to kids and other vulnerable people.
