You might not realize it, but the Fediverse is social media so a ban would be rather detrimental to this place.

Governments know about parental controls. They know it’s the most effective, most efficient, and least destructive way to deal with this. They don’t care. And they don’t care about the children. If they cared, they’d develop their own parental control software, offer it for free, and encourage it’s use.

If they really wanted to get draconian about it, as they are doing now with age verification, they would pass laws to prosecute parents who don’t use parental controls for negligence.

But it’s not about the children. At all. It’s about preventing you and me, and all of us from talking to each other and entertaining ourselves. It’s about turning the Internet into TV, a one way faucet of entertainment and information controlled by the wealthy .001% where us peons can’t talk back.

These age verification laws are just the first step. They kill small forums and games like Urban Dead, and leave only sites controlled by megacorporations that can afford the age verification infrastructure and the massive corporate fines if a single kid sneaks in. Once you get used to this, it’s easier for you to accept not being able to communicate online at all, or start your own forum, or YouTube channel.

Non-profits seem to work better when they produce a product. But when they produce nothing and just have a goal, they don’t want to close shop after achieving that goal. Like MADD. The woman who founded it left a quarter of century ago because she accomplished what she set out to do. Those running it today don’t want to lose their meal ticket.

Non-profit means the corporation isn’t set up to make a profit and the business operates off of donations instead of selling a product. So there is always a profit motive. I wish more people understood this. Everything from Greenpeace to MADD is still a corporation ran by people who want to make lots and lots of cash.

I’m using 7.5 which I installed in 2023. Have they really had 20 updates in two years or am I’m misunderstanding the numbering?

That’s the problem. Comcast is famous in the US for being utter dogshit. So is ATT. And that’s pretty much our choices.

yes but how often does your internet go down?

About once a month. Not for very long, but it is an annoyance. Xfinity usually does maintenance between 1am and 2am, and the Internet will be out for about 30 minutes to an hour. About once a year it goes down for at least half a day.

My OS hasn’t gone down at all in 20 years. I don’t want that to change. If an OS stops working for an hour once a month for maintenance, it’s a piece of refried shit.

How have things changed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis

Looks legit, doesn’t it?

How do you think we should prevent children from being the victims of misogynistic online abuse or grooming or trafficking or whatever else the government says is the reason we all need to fork over our biometric data to Persona?

I don’t think you guys are looking at the bigger picture here. What beast this article is feeding.

I’m using the website. After what you said, I checked and it has Subscribed/Local/All at the top of the page. That’s really nice. I just started using Lemmy so I haven’t completely figured it out yet. I use old reddit, so it might be set up the same way as new reddit but I wouldn’t have known.

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What are hidden posts?

I can’t figure out how to unsub from the Lemmy version of r/all. So I’m getting latestagecapitalism, politics, politicalmemes, various communist instances. 80% of what’s on my page is politics. I’m not interested in that.

I think most people unsubscribe from r/all anyway and subscribe to subs related to their favorite hobbies and games and work related info. Most of my frontpage is for video games I’m currently playing, programs I’m currently using and odd fun subs like moviemistakes or maybemaybemaybe. I wish I could do that here.

I just think you’re a cunt. Goodbye.

The feeling’s mutual, pal. Except you’re wrong and I’m scientifically correct.

referring to a victim of misogynistic online abuse as a “brat”. vile.

What’s vile are the disgusting piece of shit parents who let their kids go out and get exposed to this. They should be in prison for being horrible, irredeemable human beings who allow this to happen. That’s vile.

Letting their brat run around naked in front of a boar’s head on a stick and then acting all shocked when their kid becomes a victim of misogynistic online abuse. That is beyond vile.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Get your brat out. You are the one responsible for this.

You are the one that is causing your child to be a victim of misogynistic online abuse. You are a negligent parent and you are victimizing your child. Stop it. And quit blaming everyone else for it and belligerently shifting the responsibility. Disgusting.

This article starts off with a kid saying, “If you’re anything like my parents, you probably wouldn’t even understand most of the content that floods my social media, no matter how hard I try to avoid it.”

So is this kid going online despite being told not to? If so, then what’s the story here? This is like a kid saying “I snuck into a titty bar and you just won’t believe how many titties I saw!” If this is what’s going on, then no, the parents shouldn’t get in trouble. The kid disobeyed the parents.

But if the parents are handing this kid a wad of dollar bills and dropping them off at the titty bar, I think they should be held responsible. Maybe it’s not illegal to force a bunch of strippers to babysit your kid, but maybe it should be.

It’s not illegal but it should be and the parents should be the ones responsible. This article is a prime example of why it should be illegal.

Letting their kids go on the Internet. Get the brats out of here.

The article is confusing. It implies she’s posting and getting all these comments.

I don’t understand. Is she posting with her real name and photo? If so, her parents should be in jail. That’s mindless. There are billions of people online and millions of them are going to be unhinged assholes and lunatics. WTF!

Why is the cartel burning random cars, buildings, and businesses? Are they like rioting? Or do they have something against the particular owners of these things or is there a coherent strategy?

The article says that the burning cars are for a blockade. Are they pulling people out of cars and setting them on fire? What about the buildings and the Costco? What kind of blockade does that form?