[acheron]

Nah that’s silly, because Google has been doing all that already for the past quarter century. This “age verification” shit isn’t going to move the needle on the Google-created dystopia we already have.

The time to worry about not having a digital cage was quite awhile ago. Instead tech people pushed Chrome and Android and Gmail and ads onto us.

[mcdow]

Chrome, Android, and Gmail are optional to use.

[vrganj]

So is social media.

[afpx]

It's framed as being only for social media. But, really, it's about network access. Without network access, it's difficult to thrive in the modern world.

Are you not alarmed at the possibility that a person's network access could be cut arbitrarily and at-will?

[vrganj]

I'm mostly alarmed by kids parroting Andrew Tate and a whole generation being raised propagandised by Tiktok brainwashing.

[afpx]

Why? Kids have had access to the internet for over 30 years. What is the tiktok brainwashing (I don't use it), and how do you qualify the danger of it from say google news brainwashing, or even (gasp) public school brainwashing? I mean, if we're going to group ban information, at least let people in the local communities make those decisions. Otherwise, we're going to get the Epstein class making these decisions.

[tardedmeme]

If you've been paying attention, you know what GP is talking about and you don't make such silly equivocations.

[Barbing]

Is Google tracking which teenagers make which posts on 4chan?

Curious about via Google Chrome versus not