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Tag: social media

  • Do EU want forbid social media for minors?

    Question is floating with headlines like this one from BBC:

    EU needs to delay social media access for children – von der Leyen

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q3x19ddl7o

    It all sounds scary at first. Digital gulag, age verification and internet deanonymization, all that jazz.

    But what is a “social media” EU got scared so much of?

    How this applied to federated platforms and protocols like ActivityPub and Fediverse?

    How this applied to messengers? Especially to “small” messengers? Or federated, like Matrix or DeltaChat or SimpleX or XMPP-based stuff?

    It all does not have sense beyond WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, when it goes to Messengers, and FB & Instagram, or IX, may be Reddit and Youtube with TikTok.

    But as it happens, state not just impose some restriction against something but defines it in the most stretchy and rubber way possible, so anyone can be declared a criminal just because. It just depends on pure luck, on whether some people in power will use new restrictions to block Kremlin propaganda and disinfo, or these restrictions will end up into making EU yet another bastion of internet censorship and suppression of human rights.

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  • Facebook will punish you

    Facebook will punish you

    Yes, facebook will punish you for attempt to sign up.

    Especially if you selected to sign up without mobile phone number.

    And my brand new account without phone number has been suspended like within hour after creation.

    They required video selfie to prove me I am not a robot.

    I guess it is possible to trick this if you need to, when you have “state actor” scale of resources.

    But even after that I got email scream from FB they decided to block my account and demand to verify it. But I can’t do anythng about that, nor “prove I don’t want to use the

    I created it because I live in Georgia country where like 99.99% people use this just to communicate via FB messenger, and for insta to communicate with local businesses which are using that either as messaging platform at their websites or they use insta as storefront.

    Sometimes even to schedule an appointment to a medical clinic without waiting for hour on call (old-fashioned approach)may require communication via FB messenger.

    PS: It finally accepted my video selfie.

    I feel like every new accounts go through something like this.

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