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I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.
The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.
There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.
What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.
Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.
This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.
That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.
What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.
Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?
No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.
Jun 15
My first instinct was to support the UK’s social media ban for under 16s.
Protecting children from grooming, exploitation and harmful content seems like common sense.
But I’m seeing a lot of opposition to it, so I’m genuinely curious as to why?
One thing making me second guess is that platforms like bluesky are exempt, while at the same time there’s a push to let 16 year olds vote. To me that looks less like child protection and more like controlling where young people get their information.
Interested to hear other perspectives.
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As X gets closer to each streetlight, the stage becomes brighter, making it feel like he’s moving through small pockets of light on an otherwise dark highway.
Stole this from ace attorney twt , what's your favourite detail in Megaman ? It can be ANYTHING and in any series , as long as it's something you don't immediately see
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I know Capcom got burnt by Inafune, but this sucks, actually. We need more Hideki Kamiyas, Shu Takumis, Shinji Mikamis, and Hideaki Itsunos, all Capcom alum, to elevate the medium.
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Capcom President Haruhiro Tsujimoto says their success can be attributed to the move away from individual led development:
“In the game industry, when a title becomes a series, it often ends up depending heavily on a particular developer, becoming what you’d call an individual-driven title. If that person doesn’t make one, there’s no next installment. The direction of the series becomes tied to the ideas of a single creator.
We discussed the issue with the central figures behind each franchise and ultimately agreed that we should abandon that approach. What we came up with instead was the idea that every title should essentially be rebuilt from the ground up. We didn’t mind even if sales temporarily declined as a result, and by switching to a team-based approach to game development, Capcom changed dramatically.”
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Norman Rockwell invented the anime girl rushing with a piece of toast in her mouth trope but for the West, and nobody utilised this...
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Pride baby
SEASON 2 for TV Anime "MARRIAGETOXIN" is currently in development at Studio Bones Film
Based on original action romance by Joumyaku.
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I wonder if anyone’s ever managed to find the HD version of the Lupin III ESSO commercial
it’s a crime that they were able to make “Lupin III in the style of Roger Rabbit”, only for the shots have VHS blur obscuring that on even the BEST versions of it 😔
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"Q&A with Christine Love: Is Footsies Yuri?"
The answer may shock you! I caught up with everyone's favorite indie game dev/romance visual novelist/JP player about her nascent tournament career, how she has cultivated her creative skillsets over time, and other hard questions.
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This is a sick fit we gotta bring this back, this year's suits have 0 juice
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Did they make a movie about Lando and George making out
First poster for ‘HEARTSTOPPER FOREVER’.
Trailer releases tomorrow.
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There's a part in Drive to Survive where Toto wants to celebrate Lewis getting a podium, but the owners don't let him because they believe Mercedes shouldn't be celebrating anything other than a victory.
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All British cooking looks like Depression Food, in both sense of the term somehow.
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So, pretend for a moment that I work at an insurance company and have had a moral epiphany about how evil my employer is. What am I supposed to do? Look for another job? Okay, say I do that, but I can't find anyone to hire me. I need to keep food on the table. What should I do?
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