Both can be true

You have such a serious lack of understanding as to how the fediverse works that it’s not even possible to have a conversation with you about it.

I would be more than willing to pick this up again when you do understand.

I really don’t think you understand how this works.

If I start an instance, it is impossible for you to censor me, on my instance. Even if you were a billionaire. I cannot censor you on other federated sites, but I can defederate from a site which is run by billionaire assholes. They can have their space, and I can have mine and there doesn’t need to be any cross pollution.

It is impossible to censor anyone within their own instance. But you can block instances.

This is not a single site. It is dozens, or hundreds, or thousands, or millions, and so on. In theory, every person on the planet could have their own instance and no one could censor them.

So safe spaces for me, but not for thee?

You’re saying that because assholes have their own space, that we can’t?

Your point makes no sense. Do you understand federation and defederation? It’s not a tool of censorship. It’s literally the solution to the problem you’re complaining about.

I can defederate from those instances. Problem solved. So can you.

Trump can’t expel anyone. He’s not in charge.

Fucking moron.

That anyone can run a node. I could put one in my basement.

Trump’s _________ is falling apart behind the scenes.

He’s the reverse King Midas. Everything he touches turns to shit.

All they are going to do is drive a dark internet

Quite the strawman you have there.

You are creating things I didn’t say to argue against, like saying I created a strawman.

I cherry picked nothing. You specifically said that there is nothing parents can do because people much smarter than them are working against them

Actual quotes by you

are you confident that regular parents have a chance of competing with them

This is very much a throw your hands up in the air comment

just commenting on the troupe that parents is responsible for their own kids

Calling the expectation that parents actually parent their kid is a trope

the reality is that they don’t know what impact it has on their kids mental health and how damaging short term dopamine addiction is for their children

As I pointed out to refute this, we indeed do know what dopamine addiction does to children

Still parenting is hard, especially when you are competing with phds in behavioral science or psychologists that help these platforms design their addiction mechanism.

Again. This is throwing your hands up in the air. It more or less says, I can’t properly parent my kid because people smarter than me are working against me.

Not understanding the tech is an excuse. You can take classes. Watch videos. Join a parent group. Find people who do understand the tech. But throwing your hands up and saying you will rely on the government, is abdication of responsibility because for every law passed, the assholes will pay some governmental stooge to build in 3 loopholes and things are no better.

These laws you want are just D.A.R.E. 2.0 and they’ll work just as well.

I think your reading of my reading is far more uncharitable than anything I said.

Double true given that I am not the only responder who got the same impression from that post.

The whole post is an abdication of parental responsibility because people smarter than them are victimizing their children.

There are steps a parent can take. Even something as simple as talking to your kids about not believing bullshit just because of social media. Teaching them critical thinking skills. Teaching them to look for a motive in any message. Teaching them that it’s a trap designed to get them addicted.

But instead, “are you confident that regular parents have a chance of competing with them”.

It doesn’t fucking matter. You have to try, but just throwing your hands up is not even remotely helpful.

Agreed—me neither.

I submitted some things I wrote years ago to AI and asked if it was written by AI and it said yes.

If you write intelligently and using proper sentence structure, the default now is to believe AI. It’s sad.

“This isn’t chatgpt, it’s an endemic change!”

:D

I don’t know if that was a purposefully funny comment, but it was both clever and funny if so.

I don’t think it’s uncharitable at all. That sounds entirely like it’s saying parents shouldn’t be held responsible for knowing about the things they buy their children.

If anyone buys their kid a phone/tablet/computer and gives them unfettered access to the Internet because they think it’s “just a gaming machine” is irresponsible.

I’m not saying a parent should, or could deny their kid access, but you need to AT THE BARE MINIMUM understand what you are putting in that kid’s hands.

Tbh if children was the concern of this law, then you would allow parents to sue tiktok and other platforms that have made their children addicted to the platform.

Already happening

You should also be able to sue influencers for promoting stuff to children (they know the age of their userbase).

Absolutely yes.

We can say that all day, but the reality is that they don’t know what impact it has on their kids mental health and how damaging short term dopamine addiction is for their children.

We absolutely do know. Which is why we stopped giving cocaine and heroin to kids.

But lets say it’s the average tech illiterate parent, who thinks computers are a gaming machine for kids.

Yeah… Are you seriously advocating that parental responsibility shouldn’t be a thing? If someone is that stupid, they shouldn’t have a kid. And yes. That’s epic levels of stupid.

Which would require unanimous support and I wouldn’t expect that.

Well, they do want draftees and don’t want democracy.

So yeah…

I was specifically referring to charging a fee for using a credit card. But that apparently went away in 2022.

There are actually laws in some places in Canada against providing different pricing based on payment method. I worked at a store years ago that gave discounts for random things that were not payment methods that coincidentally only applied to people who paid cash.

The rewards thing, I run things through my credit card because of that. The only thing that the CC company makes money off of me directly for is the yearly charge.