Prime minister wants young people to be shielded from ‘power of the algorithm’

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    22 days ago

    I was jailbreaking my iPod when I was 11 and bypassing school computer restrictions. This isn’t stopping anyone. I think even a vpn would simply bypass this

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      22 days ago

      I am less concerned with stopping young people from accessing the web then with general awareness of people about the damaging mental side effects of technology.

      Those side effects are usually long term, an account and a few online interactions wont harm much. But a habit will.

      If my kids hacks trough my infrastructure i will shine with IT pride… and then update my infrastructure explaining them why it is i am so concerned.

      I know they will find ways outside my walled garden but keeping them in was never the point, providing a safe space to live to develop healthy habits is.

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      22 days ago

      I tormented the crap out of my middle schools IT guy. He couldn’t figure out how I managed to bypass the GPOs. Spoiler: the group policy was at the user level which made it easy to unapply.

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      22 days ago

      They may require real-world credentials for account creation to prevent that from happening.

      She said the government was investigating methods of enforcing such restrictions that did not intervene with human rights, such as the requirement for a bank account.

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            22 days ago

            In a couple (maybe most at this point idk) EU countries you can use your ID in combination with your phones NFC and an open source app to prove certain parameters like age to sites, without giving up any identifying information. This is what should be used here and not fucking bank accounts.