Just because it's bad, doesn't mean it's fine if it gets way worse. There's a difference between individual platforms potentially selling data with aggregators maybe finding ways to fallibly join them together, and the government mandating using a standardized identifier between all of them such that platforms can't even choose to be privacy-respecting.
You can use pseudonyms on practically all social media. That's under threat.
> There are ways to solve this without essentially saying “there is no alternative so let’s give nefarious companies access to our kids brains all the time”
It's ultimately the parents' responsibility, and the parents willingly gave their children access. It's very easy to setup parental controls. It's very easy to get your child a dumb phone. It's very easy to confiscate technology that their child isn't using responsibly. Adults should know that peer pressure isn't reason enough to give their children more freedoms than they're able to responsibly handle.
If people want to tackle this on a societal level, we should be looking into what's causing parents to be so lax in their parenting.
You can use pseudonyms on practically all social media. That's under threat.
> There are ways to solve this without essentially saying “there is no alternative so let’s give nefarious companies access to our kids brains all the time”
It's ultimately the parents' responsibility, and the parents willingly gave their children access. It's very easy to setup parental controls. It's very easy to get your child a dumb phone. It's very easy to confiscate technology that their child isn't using responsibly. Adults should know that peer pressure isn't reason enough to give their children more freedoms than they're able to responsibly handle.
If people want to tackle this on a societal level, we should be looking into what's causing parents to be so lax in their parenting.