• venusaur
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    10 hours ago

    Yall gonna hate but I’m curious how this plays out positively even with the negative consequences.

    • green_red_black@slrpnk.net
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      9 hours ago

      It won’t because to actually enforce that you are going to have to require social media sites to literally do ID checks.

      Do you honestly trust any social media company to not suffer a hack

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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        3 hours ago

        The law in EU says that they can only store the data they actually need which in this case would be none of it. You check if user is over 15 and create the account or not.

        Or course you’re going to say you can’t trust social media companies with that and that for sure they will still store everything but they already can do that. They have peoples’ credit cards, addresses, phone numbers and emails. What’s new here?

        My point is, if you don’t want social media companies to have your data you don’t create accounts there. If you do have an account there sharing your date of birth is not an issue.

        As for anonymity I say fuck it. We’re living in the age of bots and misinformation. Verifying that only real people can post things online will be a benefit for society.

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        8 hours ago

        I didn’t say there wouldn’t be negative consequences. In fact, I said there would be. I’m just curious what positive could come from it.