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Age verification for social media – the beginning of the end for a free internet? | Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)

submitted 11 hours ago by TourCookie@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A blogpost from Mullvad about age verification

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[–] mpramann@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

People can't be experts at everything. If the IT industry is on big parts build on deception and lies it's not the user's fault that they don't have the time to learn about these systems when everyday life gives them more then enough to care about. You most definitely don't fully understand every aspect of life you partake in and based on that you also most definitely make bad choices on a regular basis.

[–] EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Yea, this is exactly that reason why the people who do focus and spend time specializing in area of fast processing technology should also take care to make sure to cause a little harm to people as possible. Or there should be more oversight if those people are incapable of doing so themselves. For example, Google causes harm by invading privacy, which is unfortunately more profitable than enabling end-to-end encryption. I don’t know what could solve the problem, but there are surely options out there.

https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth-to-google