I've heard people say, "well kids can get accounts elsewhere and view porn." Look, you have to lead by example. If you're a parent and don't want your kids watching porn, you get a router that does some blocking. It won't get all of it, but you don't allow yourself a bypass either. Explain to you kids, "I know porn is tempting. I think it's wrong and I know it's wrong and try not to watch it." Yes they can still watch it if they want to, but you've let your values be known and they will either share them or dismiss them.

If you don't have any moral issues with porn, well then it really doesn't matter and let you're kids do whatever .. or whatever place in the middle you stand; you explain that to your kids.

But it should be the PARENTS who control that, not big daddy government. Don't outsource your responsibilities as parents.

Reddit is a cesspool of propaganda, authoritarianism, groupthink and, now, tons of LLM bots. It lost any credibility it had a decade ago. Still, I am very against these types of laws. In the UK, they have destroyed all small sites and forums. They are not about protecting children and teens. Is social media bad for teens? It's BAD FOR ADULTS! The algorithmic ranking system is always a massive danger and social media in-general gives people a false sense of relevance.

Small fourms, boards and things like ActivityPub (Pleroma/Mastodon) which allow the standard reverse chronological are still massive time-wasters, but they're nowhere near as bad as Facebook/Xitter/Insta (FB was funded by Peter Thiel and went online the day after DARPA shut down Digital LifeLog. Purely a coincidence I'm sure).

I'm glad Reddit is saying something about this, but they're not the ones with the moral high ground to even run such a campaign. Still, it affects every smaller site forum and startup that accepts user generated submissions. If you want to know about how bad Reddit is, I wrote this a few years back:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

You can use Pleroma, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube or any number of softwares to connect to the ActivyPub social network (known as the Fediverse). I use Pleroma myself and I like it. It's all chronological, none of that algorithm shit. Truth Social and Gab both use Mastodon code, but turned off federation. Minds is not open source, but they implemented ActivityPub so you can communicate with people on there from Mastadon/Pleroma. The censorship is still a problem, and I did a study on it, but I still prefer it to the big social networks: https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

Then you don't have a nation. The older libertarian self might have agreed with you a long time ago. But we can clearly see the push to just shove people across borders in the US and EU is not from libertarian ideals, but rather a push towards cultural breakdown so governments can step in and implement authoritarian control. You have to have some shared culture and borders to be a nation today. You get rid of those and your civilization tends to evaporate. What it gets replaced with is almost always more authoritarian.

> Let them in, evaluate their situation

This never happens. This is never intended to happen. That's the point of the system under both Biden and Trump. They were always meant to be turned into permanent residents. If you can't see that for what it is; how they had the same end goals with different social advertising to get people outraged as they're perusing the same policy, then I can't help you.

My parents immigrated legally. They got their education, my dad found a contract job, got sponsored, worked for years, got his Greencard ... Is it fair to people like him that other people can just jump the queue? None of them are really "refugees" .. they're economic migrants. There are also a ton of Chinese coming across that southern border that no one is talking about.

USAID was horrifically corrupt and many of the NGOs were used to shuffle around CIA operatives. In the 1960s, the US State Department had more CIA operatives on the payroll in embassy than actual state dept employees. Destroying USAID didn't fix this situation, as the CIA operations most directly into the State Dept. Also, most NGOs that weren't funding gender studies bullshit were also moved into the State Dept .. honestly nothing really changed with the dismantling of USAID. The Federal government barely saved any money, only a small amount of those programs went away and the CIA just has different places to hide their operations now. Getting angry over USAID was part of the divide and conquer strategy of whoever is really running the US (some combination of the CIA, DIA and Mossad).

There is no difference between parties. They both want technocracy. The fake-dems letting in all of these people with refugee papers is just the other side of the coin. They are both getting everyone angry so both sides will embrace more and more authoritarianism.

Stop being baited and bating people. The entire government run by pedophiles and sexual blackmail is your enemy and the enemy of the people, not the fake-left or fake-right.

I wonder how many people will immediately push to fork Bun.

No .. no they don't. I mean, they certainly are, but they don't realize it. And chatbots are very stupid. They cannot reason, they cannot think, they cannot "hallucinate" or "lie" because they are weighted random word generators and have no intent. ... and most humans are dumber than that.

Two? There's one option. The lie is believing any of those people are any different. Everything they do is acting and pandering for the cameras. They're almost all corrupt and 1/3 of them or more probably diddle kids. We're One Nation Under Blackmail.

EXACTLY! It's all about tying your real identity and government ID to your online presence. It's amazing no one really sees this, as people in the UK are getting arrested, detained and harassed by police simply for their opinions. The leaders who want this are doing it for authoritarian means and they are utilizing the useful idiots who scream, "think of the children."

The argument is social media is bad for kids. Hey, it's bad for adults! Being 30 or 40 doesn't make it any less terrible. I know people my age who keep looking at their phones while at a bar or party or restaurant, as well as people way younger than me who know how to be present now with people who are really around you. Everyone should get off of social media, and refuse to use any "big" services that want to tie you to some national ID database.

I do. I run LineageOS on my phone with zero Gapps. I don't go into any restaurant that scans ID to get in. Same for places that sell alcohol. I made stickers if you want to do the same:

https://battlepenguin.com/priv...

I don't ever use my phone number for customer tracking at the grocery store. I don't own cars new enough to have permanent cell models. I know my phone ISP still sells my location data and there's nothing I can do about that, nor can I do anything about license plate cameras.

But I care. I've reduced my tracking footprint by at least 1/4 of that of normal people, maybe more. I don't give my fucking zip code to a museum when they ask, and sometimes the cashier gets all bitchy like "what do you have to hide?" and I'm like "bitch I'm paying to go to your museum, I'm not giving you free marketing data" (I don't say that but I'm thinking it).

I use uBlock Origin and turn off Javascript by default. I click "no" on every cookie warning when they make it through.

So I care. I'm sorry you're so cynical you don't understand that you should care too. The legislation is not for you. You benefit from it despite your apathy and you should be FUCKING THANKFUL.

Ah yes, another prediction you won't be alive for to be proven wrong about.

Everyone likes to think they are the ones outside of Plato cave; that they are awake. But it's just as easy to find yourself deep in the cave and finding things more beautiful than anything you've seen. Then you come back outside and try to convince everyone their world isn't real, the real world is down here in the cave.

It's impossible in Plato's analogy to know which side of the reality curtain you're on.

If the majority are often the ones blinded by conformity and religious belief, than it's pretty likely the people saying the multiple predicted "New York City will be underwater by 2020" style disasters that never happened are the ones spreading the false reality, and the people seeing a climate that literally hasn't changed significantly in the past century of human existence and questioning the disaster narrative as the ones who are awake.

I don't go into restaurants that require an ID scan. I've stopped flying because of all the biometrics. If some agent tried to do this, I'd be fucking livid. I'd probably set aside $20k of my own money just to sue and get my data deleted.

And before you scream "you're tracked already" : My cars are old enough they don't have permanent cell modems in them. My phone runs Lineage without Gapps or microG (Yes, the ISP still tracks and sells my location data. I know. Nothing I can do about that). I built my own Linux router. I run my own e-mail. I pump all my SMS over XMPP using jmp.chat.

I refuse to ever publish anything to the Microsoft or Apple stores because they require a fucking government ID scan to publish! Fuck them!

My tracking footprint is smaller than most people's. I'm in the 1%. I fight for the 99%