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Soren Spicknall
@sorenspicknall.bsky.social

I think part of why Estonia has been good on this stuff is they've benefited from having tech policy leaders who actually enjoy tech and want tech to be beneficial. Some missteps along the way, but they are consistently directionally correct in a way so many peer govs aren't.

Dewie
@judgedewie.bsky.social

Exactly. Every person I hear talking about banning kids from social media talks about the images of self-harm and suicide, the hate speech and slurs, the grooming and the explicit images. Those things shouldn't be on there anyway. We need to treat social media companies like publishers.

Erkhyan Rafosa
@erkhyan.bsky.social

I’m honestly baffled by all those people who think that age verification, which requires widespread collection of personal data, is anything to root for. How many more foreign governments and corporations must I send my passport to, hoping they won’t abuse that level of power over my identity?

Erkhyan Rafosa
@erkhyan.bsky.social

Not to mention one insidious side of ID verification: most ID verification services refuse *all forms of Malagasy IDs* except for a passport, which is the most difficult to obtain. I literally had to *lie to my government* at the time to get a passport, just so I wouldn’t lose access to my Patreon!