If politicians were serious about keeping people safe online (and yes - kids deserve safety, and non-kids do as well) they would address the business models that incentivize harm -- ie. data brokers, adtech, etc.
And they don't do that, because they want the surveillance.
Want to make the internet safer? Address Facebook, Insta, TikTok, etc -
Current approaches to "safety" create a mandate that legislates pervasive surveillance as a business opportunity.
They are using "safety" as the fig leaf to force us all into always-on surveillance.
@funnymonkey
> as the fig leaf
Me thinks they use it literally. Each time I see a #technazi billionaire spewing the "safety" I feel they envision sharp silhouettes of the raised pitchforks menacingly dancing over their heads and the scene is lit with the flickering lights of millions of torches.
@funnymonkey And security...
@funnymonkey And more specifically, make the EXECUTIVES of these organizations personally responsible and CULPABLE for the harms they cause through their cavalier greed. the PEOPLE like Mark Schmuckerborg not just the legal fiction of a company.
make internet safe, delete all corporate networks ! ...
@funnymonkey Under Australia's laws, the company providing the platform has the duty of care to protect underage users from harm. Currently, kids are using workarounds to access the platforms, and the government is saying to the corps: "Not good enough, try harder. " The response has been muscle- flexing "You don't tell us what to," to which Australia is saying, "Well actually, we're a sovereign country."
Jul 1, 2026, 2:39 AM@anne_twain @funnymonkey Here's the thing: Parents have stopped supervising their kids and prefer to shower them with gadgets (it shuts them up).
So the knock-on effect of making platforms provide supervision is that the parents (and everyone else) will also be supervised like we are children.
The facile – even brain-dead – way that childhood integration into remote computing platforms is accepted is a big part of the problem. Seriously, anyone would have been considered a freak for assuming this even 15 years ago.
Jul 1, 2026, 2:47 AM@funnymonkey Why do "respectable, reasonable people" as a function of their respectability refactor all of their positions to accommodate the "great new thing" to the point of absurdity?
Next they'll be saying that the Internet "is what plants crave".
Jul 1, 2026, 8:33 AM@tasket @funnymonkey The oblique reference to Brawndo is warranted I'm afraid and the protagonists here are long overdue their Monday Night Rehabilitation
@tasket
But. Its what plants crave.
