I'm open to better alternative ideas, but I really haven't heard any.
But yes. Every single platform that offers the opportunity for kids to interact other users, especially strangers, should have some kind of protections. I think the platforms themselves should be held accountable for what happens on their platforms. Just like the courts have held that the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church are responsible for protecting kids they serve. Discord doesn't get a pass.
You see, one thing that child predators really really hate is policies. They want their interactions to be frictionless, so that at the first sign of trouble they can get out. Strong policies really are a strong deterrent.
It won't make the evil people stop doing the evil things, but it'll cause a lot of them to move to someone else's platform that has weaker policies.
I'm only going to explain this once because this topic, as well as most online topics, is more about emotions than facts. But here we are.
You didn't understand how this helps because you aren't trained to think like a child predator. (That's fine.) I've had to take a lot of child safety trainings over the years for professional reasons. Here's how online child predators work, they start by trying to get the kid into a secret. They say "hey want to see some porn?", and of course the kid is curious. And the kid is told, "be sure you don't tell your parents about this." Then they slowly try to pull into deeper and deeper secrets and start to black mail the kid. They start to demand that the kid send them nude photos. They trap the kids into deeper and deeper secrets and guilt to get more and more out of them. In the worst cases this results in meetups with the predator in person.
The easiest places for the predators to start this process is porn sites where the kids are visiting in secret to begin with. Those are the kids that are most vulnerable.
How how did this protect kids? The goal is to keep the kids out of spaces where they would be targeted to begin with.
So there you go. I'm all ears for how to do this better.
You can't disregard depreciation. That's real cost, and regardless how well you take care of your car is not literally going to run forever.
But regardless, you are forgetting to consider maintenance and a lot of other things. And if you are in one accident, especially one where you are at fault, you will find that your cost will rise considerably.
$1000 a month for a car is a pretty low estimate for most people. And even if we accept that estimate, it's $1000 per month, per car. Most suburban families are going to need more than one.
I really don't understand what the hate is about on this. Like Discord's policy here is really pretty reasonable. Default to teen-mode unless confirmed that you are an adult. Discord, and other social media websites, have a lot of liability and should be held accountable.
It seems like any effort to protect children is hated. This is what annoys me about the EFF's argument. They say this won't protect children, but they offer no alternative solutions that would.
There is one simple trick to determine if you are talking to a bot. Ask the person you are talking to not to respond to a comment.
"No offense, but I'm going to check to see if you are a bot. Please don't reply to this comment."
Current LLMs can't not respond. They will often write that they are "really insulted that you would say that" and that the test "doesn't prove anything", but they can't not respond.
I'm sure eventually the programmers will hard code in a simple defeat for this test soon enough, but for now it still works well.
Do you feel guilty when you are paid for your work?
No. You are an employee and you work and you are entitled to payment for your work.
Same goes for government assistance. You are a citizen and you are entitled to that assistance. It's literally no different. Our democracy set that assistance aside for you. It's yours, and until Congress changes the rules, you are entitled to it.
I'm open to better alternative ideas, but I really haven't heard any.
But yes. Every single platform that offers the opportunity for kids to interact other users, especially strangers, should have some kind of protections. I think the platforms themselves should be held accountable for what happens on their platforms. Just like the courts have held that the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church are responsible for protecting kids they serve. Discord doesn't get a pass.