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If only there were some kind of collective larger than a family or a school that could decide to take away social media from impressionable children...

Yes, and how would the government ban social media apps from preschoolers without forcing everyone to doxx themselves to prove age?

Your sarcastic jab doesn't add any new questions or answers to this very important issue, since everyone can agree social media is bad for kids, but also we don't want to lose internet anonymity just because schools and parents can't raise kids without giving them a smartphone in hand since birth.


They've already done it, mate. You can go read about the Australian law. They are putting the burden of proof on the tech companies: "You have heaps of data on your users, you know who are young teens because you target them for marketing. Ban underage kids or we fine you."


We already ban children under 13. I think that's a good thing and the age limit should be 16 or 17.

The rest of your comment is a non sequitur.


It's a good thing that children under the age of 12 don't know how to use checkboxes!

Luckily the Australian law is written such that tech companies can't get away with a checkbox.

You won't have immortality, but Jeff Bezos & friends might.

How do you feel about dying when your betters won't have to?


Agreed. If immortality was discovered tomorrow (or at least some sort of anti-aging treatment), there’s no way it would become available to a regular person. All of us would still age and die, but we’d be ruled forever by ageless ghouls.

> but we’d be ruled forever by ageless ghouls.

We all know what the ruled do when they get really pissed. The prospective ghouls know it very well too.


...do you send private messages using services hosted on publicly reachable URLs?

Australia has done this. They've put the burden of proof on the tech firms: you already have this invasive data on all your users, use it to ban children.

Article mentions Jevons Paradox, but where is it? Where are all the thousands of new apps?

Customer service will be almost fully automated, and human customers will be forced to adapt to the bots.

It already has with IVRs . I wonder if as a generalization, current technology will keep being used to provide layers and layers of "automation" for communication between people.

SDR Agents will communicate with "Procurement" Agents. Customer Support Agents will communicate with Product Agents. Coffee Barista Agents will talk with Personal Assistant Agents.

People will communicate less and less among each other. What will people talk about? Who will we talk to?


Or customers will find other providers who don't annoy them.

History so far suggests this is a dim possibility.

Exactly why Comcast and Google went out of business with their abysmal customer support.

Unless the state of the art has advanced, it was the case that grandmasters playing with computer assistance ("centaur chess") played better than either computers or humans alone.

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