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by jpfromlondon
2 days ago
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>We as technologists need to engage with wider society and understand on their terms, the worries they have. We were the vanguard blocking this to the public's benefit, now they've voted for it our only duty is to ourselves; to make sure the rules don't apply to us. |
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I think its perfectly winnable argument. For example we already _had_ age gating in the UK, its just it was at the network level on mobile internet. It worked and was unobtrusive.
The antidote to the OSA was to just extend that to domestic internet.
That argument was lost, and lost hard. mainly because we didn't engage properly with a believable solution.
> to make sure the rules don't apply to us.
The point is, they don't really apply to the determined. the same argument could be made for painkiller blister packs. The level of friction that the packs provide reduce drug based impulse suicide by 40% (depending on which study you reference)
The argument against it is "I can't be arsed with pressing the little shits out, I just want it easy". The Populist approach is making it prescription only.
Unless we engage properly, on the right level, then we are going to be worse off.