Posted by bilsbie 2 days ago
Others perhaps, not mine. I will not participate in the 3rd party madness. It will be local stores for me, private forums for the local community self contained within the ISP. At most I will add RTA headers to my private and semi-private sites that are already hard to reach by bots. Any process that involves 3rd parties or magic math is going to expose many people both adults and children to risk they did not consent to and that will harm them throughout the rest of their lives.
I may sound crazy for saying so, but I think the answer is more government run infrastructure for enabling identity-based operations, like payments and authentication, with rules about standards, open source, contractor selection, and audit that make operation transparent. It can work if technical operations are legislated instead of "left for the engineers to figure out." Then at least the evolution of systems can become real political issues that map to election cycles.
My stance is probably a polarizing one, but this is precisely why we need to be able to debate the minutae of these systems through our political discourse instead of just "will we; won't we" legislation. This should be debated in democratic process.
I guess, welcome to the middle age of tech? The part where you have to pick up the pieces and clean up the mess that you see around you.
Poor surveillance controls do though - let's perhaps fix those instead of allowing garbage like Flock to spread and then hand wring? EU started with GDPR, let's see others follow and build on it?
It was designed to be half-arsed so Digital ID can come along and save the day. Australia's Digital ID opens up to the private sector on 30 November.
I have kids and no amount of bullshit is going to convince me this is necessary for social interaction of any kind. If anything the "phone kids" are the weird ones.
People are creating this problem. You can easily, very easily, say "no" to a kid. I pay to keep you bloody alive and I will defend your sanity with everything I got because these kids are our future. Being disliked or "hated" by them is the least of my worries. Are we adults or what?
Sometimes I think there is a severe lack of "adulting" lately. No amount of legislation will fix that.
Whenever I speak to someone who's planning to vote Reform (UK hard-right party) their views are primarily shaped by seeing AI slop videos on TikTok/Instagram, showing immigrants doing crimes etc etc
Reform will probably win the next election because of this, unless we find a way to make platforms manage the situation.
Interesting example: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tiktok-fake-news-cr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
A "safe harbor" is a section of the law where they basically say "as long as you do X, those other laws won't apply". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_(law)#