”Is that a camera?"

”No"

Fake Taxi, probably…

Fuck that shit. I’m not a kid and don’t want people spying on me.

I don’t want the gOhVehRnMEeNt spying on me when I drive!111! Why should I show a valid Driving Licence when I’m in my car! My car my choice of driving!

Just make the parental controls much easier to set up, have media literacy lessons instead, and that would help far more.

You can quite literally set up screentime for your children easily. So why not do that? Why not mandate that a children’s phone must have a limited amount of screentime?

People with absent parents still require a caretaker, so then those. And those that have toxic/abusive parents… well, how is it going to improve for them if they can’t find help online? If they’re prohibited from going outside?

They would definitely need more guided help. But if professionals who offer this kind of guided help are the first ones on supporting these initiatives, why it’s so tough to understand their opinion on the matter?

No, I think we should address it by the root; the polarisation and fascist radicalisation, caused by algorithms promoting hateful content, caused by billionnaires’ growing exploitation of the proletariat, by which they steer social media to their own whims.

That needs to be kicked out.

Oh, finally a solution I could 100% sign for! I would definitely approve that, but how would you explain it to the same people that now are yapping about freedom of expression? Wouldn’t they complain about censorship also in that case? And trust me, I agree with you, but I’m already foreseeing people on Shitter (or any other right-wing most favourite Social Network) rallying against it.

This is the internet, an international place. Everyone’s informed opinion is valuable here, regardless of country.

Possibly, but I have enough time spent on the internet to smell the malicious intent if someone anywhere else in the world makes some negative remarks against decisions taken by a sovereign country or their society.

But Youtube Kids fucks over everyone, even those who are not a kid. Google’s Youtube for example automatically deletes the comment section if it even remotely thinks your video is aimed at children. So content creators instead have to get creative and insert unneccessary violence/gore (like Cas van de Pol does), to avoid this.

And having a good rigorous way to restrict adult-only content at account master data level could be a good technical solution.

If your kids go to peers to have social media access, then why don’t you host gatherings for the kids and friends that are social media-free? You know, the ones that existed before internet?

It can also be enforced differently. On schools, there are social media bans that work without infringing privacy.

Guess how they figured it out? They simply confiscated mobile phones until school was over.

I have already said what I think about this, and I quote that I agree with anyone who says that kids should be guided and assisted on social media in the right environments, or in a way to find the right spaces to express themselves (with hobbies, sports, group activities, whatever), and I’ll vote for anyone who could do anything on that purpose. But we can also imagine flying cars at this point.

You will see for yourself soon enough that you will have to upload your ID or 3D scan your face if you live in one of those garbage countries.

What country do you live in? And, if you don’t live in any of those affected countries, why should your opinion be more valuable than the one of the people living in it?

Those ID verification companies admit that they are only 95% accurate at estimating user age, which means that 5% of your population is now barred from accessing websites that they should have access to, which should be completely unacceptable in a normal world.

And that’s an IMPLEMENTATION concern. A legit one, but still relevant just on how the system is implemented, not on the purpose on the system by itself.

Have a tech question as a teenager? Good fucking luck trying to beat the reddit age verification. Want to refresh your knowledge of how to give first aid? Guess what, fuck you. Need help with school work? Guess what, it’s all on YouTube.

That’s a seller problem. Each of them already offers a limited version of their content if you don’t login. Youtube has a Youtube Kids portal too! If the legislation is in place, they would do whatever they could to offer a sanitised version of their content to underage or not identified users.

Researching a sensitive topic? Age gated, restricted, banned.

Why should a teenager do it without guidance? Quite the opposite, the risk is to find just bad advice. This argument gets me even more convinced.

If you give your little kids smartphones that’s your fucking problem, not mine!

Yeah because that’s how kids reason, isn’t it? If you forbid something to them they absolutely won’t go to their peers and friends to get access to that, will they?

If the authentication system is similar to a 2FA, where I store my ID information on my mobile phone for instance, and the seller website requires just an authentication token (or code), I’ll happily use it, as it would fit my security terms and requirements. Otherwise, I simply won’t use that service. Fair and square. What of this approach is too tough to get?

Agree. And any professional working or dealing with children would agree.

And, for anyone who is telling: “lEt ThE pArEnTs dO tHaT!!11|!!”, please put yourself in that situation. Would your parents have been able to set rigorous and effective checks on the media you accessed in your youth? And even if so, the conditions in which a teenager lives today are different than the ones you experienced: average time spent with families is decreasing, the average time that teenagers spend in touch with their peers (not necessarily in person, but also via IM) is increasing, and therefore also the peer pressure. Also, what about those kids with absent parents? What about those kids with toxic or incompetent parents?

Sure, I agree with anyone who says that kids should be guided and assisted on social media in the right environments, or in a way to find the right spaces to express themselves (with hobbies, sports, group activities, whatever), and I’ll vote for anyone who could do anything on that purpose. But we can also imagine flying cars at this point.

If you are a decent person, you are not on X. There is no other option.

Also, Luxottica Group SpA (the company that owns the Ray-Ban brand) is Italian. They abide to European laws.

This, in my humble opinion, is the future. Handheld (and also ordinary) gaming will migrate to ARM soon.

What would happen if (or when) all the apps were built with vibe coding?

Both. It’s an intersection.

No, you don’t seem to see the point of my comment above: it DOES NOT MATTER what they mean with “protecting the children”. What matters is that as soon as you bind your cause to an unpopular one, you are just increasing your chances of losing. I care about SKG, and I don’t want it to fail because of a change of priorities. You are aware that Politics is a matter of pragmatism, aren’t you?

I will easily sound unpopular, but I don’t think it is a good strategy. It doesn’t matter if the “Protect the children” statement is genuine or pure gaslighting. What counts is that it is an easy win for politicians, and if SKG ties up against age verification laws, the risk is that it could lose support of those politicians who have expressed their interest in it.

Think about it: SKG could risk to be ruled out by those politicians who are endorsing the Online Safety initiatives. If these MEPs are put in the position to choose between “Protect the Games” or “Protect the Children”, there is no way they will choose the former, because the latter is an easier reputational win.

It’s a matter of strategy: you should take a little battle at time, because the moment you are clubbing battles together, you are just increasing the probability of losing all of them together.

People like it because it’s trash, not despite it’s trash. That’s how entertainment works.

I cancelled my TV Licence. The Eurovision Song Contest was the only live show I was watching on live TV. If they really want my licence money, they should ask a certain country in the Middle East that’s meddling with a EUROPEAN song contest.

I feel that we definitely need a parody of all those nostalgia reboots.

Generic character in a robe, possibly Ghandalf: “Use the Force, Harry!”.

Does it count also the Publisher budget (which usually goes to marketing, advertisement, etc.)?

Watched a demo at the Milan Games Week in last November. The game is polished and has lots of curated environments. The cities design looks amazing.

You cannot compare with someone in their 15 today: average time spent with families is decreasing, and the average time that teenagers spend in touch with their peers (not necessarily in person, but also via IM) is increasing, and therefore also the peer pressure. Also, what about those kids with absent parents? What about those kids with toxic or incompetent parents?

Sure, I agree with anyone who says that kids should be guided and assisted on social media in the right environments, or in a way to find the right spaces to express themselves (with hobbies, sports, group activities, whatever), and I’ll vote for anyone who could do anything on that purpose. But we can also imagine flying cars at this point.