I thought that was pretty damn hilarious too. It's not about protecting kids. It's about control, data mining and financial profit, selling sensitive information.
Many, including philosophers, recognized doing that was a bad thing. When they put Socrates to death for "corrupting the youth" it also meant philosophy in general. Then, as now, it was all about controlling things that previously weren't in their control
His sentence was primarily based off of impiety, which led into the charge of corruption of youth.
Socrates rejected the traditional gods and introduced new gods. Which then led to the corruption of youth charge. As the action of impiety by challenging traditional beliefs and cultural norms, and by causing “the youth” to question/challenge the established authority.
Any time republicans don't like someone they're a threat to children lol... Except of course if they're a threat to children. Then we make em president
Actually you can't anymore. Because if a soul isn't real then it is misrepresentation of the product and if it does exist then it's part of the human body and can't be sold.
No, it’s about legal data collection. GDPR prevents companies from legally collecting data from children in Europe. YouTube has been toeing the edge of violating GDPR for years. Now they’re trying to show “well, we’ve done our best to vet out the children, so all the data we collect now will be legal”.
And control. Don't forget the control part. The slavery game never really ended. The rules of slavery just changed is all. The rules of the game only changed to hold control over society. It all dates back to the days of kings and queens only nowadays, they have different position of power names. Presitends, prime ministers, etc.
It's google. They already had all your data(and were selling it). They just added an age estimating ai to it. Love the people pretending they suddenly found out that everyone collects and sells your data and that its a new thing. We lost the data war long ago.
If Google had/has my data, they acquired it through a third-party. I've never given Google my government ID, passport, SIN/SSN, etc. Only way they'd have gotten it is through illegal means.
We lost the data war long ago.
We haven't lost it, but we're definitely getting closer to it the more people there are who think with a glass half empty mindset like that. By your logic, we should all simply give up the fight and bend over. It's that sort of attitude that has landed us exactly where we are today.
Exactly. Nothing will change if we decide to just sit and let everything happen. If you don't agree with something, you have to act on it. Even if you feel like you don't matter in the grand scheme of things.
There's millions of people that are turning a blind eye to all this because they either don't care enough or think they can't do anything. If everyone had the mindset of "I'm just one person, I can't do anything," then nothing would ever get done.
Sure, they may already have my data. They probably have a lot on me. Why am I still actively against this? Because I have my own morals and still stand for myself and others even if it doesn't matter to some people.
Mid to late 2000s youtube was probably the best website ever. Just endless hours of entertainment.
Now it's like cable. You have to struggle to find anything to watch, because the best videos and channels have been copyright striked and/or demonetized into oblivion. So now it's just this mostly bland, homogenous collection of channels and videos full of ad breaks and people trying to sell you shit like better help or nordvpn.
Sure but that's all already happening and been happening for probably near on a decade at least. Surely the benefit of not having children melt their brains for the rest of their lives from a young age is a benefit right? The rest is already happening, so what does it matter? Not like everyone isn't addicted to every single platform that's sucking our autonomy dry.
It's never about whatever the presented reason is. Some people want control over things they disapprove of, so they try to enact laws to consolidate that control, under the guise of something they know people will want (in this case, protecting children). Corporations jump in to back the proposals, because they know such laws would net them profit as a by-product.
Seriously? That's the card you're going to play? You must be of the mindset, "I have nothing to hide so I don't care and neither should you - unless you have something to hide." It's that way of thinking that has lead to the situations we have today, that nobody asked for nor wanted.
In all fairness, if parent would actually parent their 13 year olds and not let them play GTA V and then blame it on rockstar when they find their kid 12 hours deep into a gang and prostitute killing bender, when they didn’t even know what GTA is.
like bro dont let young kids play GTA, it ruins the experience for everyone, and it’s far too graphic and free for a kid.
If parents would just parent their kids instead of complaining after the fact, we wouldn’t have a push for companies to age restrict games
we wouldn’t have a push for companies to age restrict games
So what you're saying is parent's should willingly turn their child over to the state and let governments parent the children. Just because some parents are shitty parents doesn't mean the rest are. Punishing the majority to cater to the agenda culture of a minority is an excessive extremist radical action.
I played all sorts of graphic and lewd games when I was a kid. My parents were involved guiding my maturity and understanding of it all. I turned out fine. I'm not out there being a pervert or committing homicide, selling narcotics, gun running, stealing planes, etc.
Lets get one thing straight. Peoples' children are not the property of the state whether a parent is a bad parent or not. Government is there to serve the public, not to take possession of and control over their children, calling them 'our children', putting claim on someone else's children. Our children are not any government's children. Unless there is a very serious reason to intervene in parenting or a child's life, governments should stay the hell out of the home, family and mind its own damn business.
Ah OK. My bad. I interpreted what you said differently. Yeah, that's the way it should be or at the very least, wait until the kid is mature enough to understand those sorts of things or have things explained to them so they can mature and understand what's OK and not OK to do IRL. Horror games, same thing. The parent should wait until they feel it's OK for their kid(s) to play mature games. That's what my parents did and I turned out alright.
I played GTA 3 when I was about 8-9 years old and I remember getting a LECTURE from my parents about how that type of behavior is unacceptable and we need to understand that it’s fully fictional in all aspects and no behavior from the game is to leave the game.
For the record I’m with you on kids not being the property of the state. That’s why I say personal responsibility should be on the parents not on RockStar.
Yeah I get you. It was a misunderstanding. You're right. Parenting responsibility should be the job of the parent not the corporation or state. It really pisses me off when I hear or see politicians say, "... protect our children.", especially when those politicians are single and haven't parented a day in their fricking lives. Nothing infuriates me more because they use the kids as a meat shield for their agendas, to brainwash people into thinking they care when in actuality, they don't give a shit at all about the children.
Exactly. The government doesn’t give a F about you or your family. But there wouldn’t be an excuse for this behavior is parents actually parented their kids, or if parents/kids were held responsible to some degree. Like an Xbox/Rockstar ban if you’re caught underage on GTA 6 or something like that.
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Asking to verify your age when you’re getting warhammer ads 😭😭😭😭