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  • This is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about government-provided digital ID. We could have social media that allows us to know who is verified as a real Canadian human being and who is a truly-anonymous account.

    But instead we’re going to get “give your photos to Peter Thiel”, which is a tech that doesn’t solve the problem of anonymous disinfo-peddlers with shadowy backing, but does give the evilest people in the world a way to track you.

    Especially since its’ pretty easy to just flag an account on Microsoft or Google as a child account. If they really wanted to just detect children online so that sites can properly enforce adult-only rules, the browser could send that as a header flag.













  • The very idea of a user-generated content free-to-play MMO for children with whack-a-mole moderation is totally bananas. Even good whack-a-mole moderation would be a bananas design.

    I’m okay with little kids online gaming, but it needs to be in content that has been approved by a responsible adult in a setting where either adults are actively supervising or the children are on a server where we know everybody who’s in there.