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.
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.