Young people criticized Israel and are having their free speech taken away. That’d what’s going on. We must help them get around these fascist laws
Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law
Submitted 1 day ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to technology@beehaw.org
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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Techdirt has been killing it since they decided to start covering politics.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 day ago
So this bit here:
Populate a public list of other users with whom such user shares a social connection within such service or application
seems like the easiest way to circumvent this law, with the least effort. Just hide connections for users in VA, and now you’re not a social media site.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
The unworkability is a feature, not a bug.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Worst thing about this is it stops at “non-adults”, and puts the burden in individual services(which would be un-workable, yes) rather than ISPs(which have the means). God forbid we do anything to help society as a whole.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Don’t advocate for fashy shit like ISP restrictions
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Might as well call peak usage rates for electricity “fashy shit”. Excessive social media usage helps no-one.
CAWright@infosec.pub 1 day ago
We only elect the best here in the USA. Hey, VA, thanks for taking the heat off our idiots here in AR. We are collectively stupid here in the US south. We need a fresh wave of Darwinism down here to wash out the stupid.
sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub 34 minutes ago
At this point, I’m thinking about the silver lining. If a web of federal and state laws require everybody to prove their identity to some central identity broker, in order to prove they aren’t underage, before creating an account on Facebook or YouTube or TikTok, that’s going to interfere with a lot of spambot and AI garbage.