I’m asking for public policy ideas here. A lot of countries are enacting age verification now. But of course this is a privacy nightmare and is ripe for abuse. At the same time though, I also understand why people are concerned with how kids are using social media. These products are designed to be addictive and are known to cause body image issues and so forth. So what’s the middle ground? How can we protect kids from the harms of social media in a way that respects everyone’s privacy?
Make platforms responsible for the content that people upload. This will basically make any large scale social media unable to exist without prohibitive moderation costs.
I guess lemmy would fair better in this scenario because moderation costs would be split between different instance owners. It still might be potentially prohibitive even for them though
It probably would be for the large instances. But, even though I’m using one of the large ones, I can’t help but wonder if it wouldn’t still be better for society as a whole.
Yeah and honestly it would probably be good for the fediverse if the big instances broke up into smaller ones. It would make things even more decentralized