can i also block developer options and apk sideloading?

Monopolies are bad in every sector with the exception of software development. Let me explain:

When you produce 5 cars, you have 5 cars. That’s 5 times as good as 1 car. So it makes sense to produce more cars.

When you have 5 programs (that each do the same), you have effectively 4 redundancies and you could get the same work done with 1 program. So, 5 programs is worth just as much as 1 program, and the other 4 are a waste. So it is more efficient to only write every software once. This also reduces bloat and confusion. For example, if iOS and Android had more common code basis, it would probably be better for everyone.

Consider this meme, but with products instead of standards:

This is why monopolies make sense in software development. Google developed a lot of software, including Android, which doesn’t need to be developed 10x times by 10 different companies. It only needs to be developed once. That’s the difference between hardware (cars) and software.

This is also good news because it obviously means that german government will have to review the software used for possible security holes and close them, so everyone who also uses the software gets security fixes.

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it will probably take years to figure out how to do age-verification properly.

yeah, what i actually meant with this was that it will take years for platforms to figure out how to do age-verification properly without infringing on the privacy of its users.

not because it is complicated, but because it is a societal process and these are always slow as hell.

block apps

block all 150000000 apps on the app store?

I would like to say that this is good for the quality of content on social media as well…

There’s less bullshit content on social media if there’s fewer kids, and also there’s less incentive for other people to create bullshit content for teenagers to consume, if there’s fewer teenagers on the platforms in the first place.

AFAIK only big platforms are required to take measures, so it’s actually the opposite of what you said. it shifts power to smaller platforms who don’t have to comply with these rules.

but no problem if they fail to identify minors as such?

it’s a new technology. it will probably take years to figure out how to do age-verification properly.

Get her a dumb phone. Install parental controls.

If this actually worked. I tried it once and it did not work at all. Platforms/apps don’t seem to respect the device settings at all.

One parent told the Guardian their 15-year-old daughter was “very distressed” because “all her 14 to 15-year-old friends have been age verified as 18 by Snapchat”. Since she had been identified as under 16, they feared “her friends will keep using Snapchat to talk and organise social events and she will be left out”.

I think the ban should only apply to public-facing platforms, where everybody can see your content.

Platforms where you only talk to your friends should maybe be left out of it.

not if it’s a library

descriptive linguistics >> prescriptive linguistics

classic case of the four-leaved-clover story

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in japan or in the US?

i actually don’t have a problem with HTML, i just think that instead of every app shipping their own copy of electron, the operating system should provide basic browser functionality.

i think it has to do with better food and medicine. at least the literature mentions these two reasons as the primary guesses. but nobody knows for sure.

now one could argue that nobles back then probably had good access to food, and the effect might not be as prevalent for them. but they still often caught bad infections as children that might have a significant delay for puberty. because medicine wasn’t as good back then, not even for nobles.

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Teenagers cannot consent to sex with adults.

according to what proof?

I don’t fully understand this extreme desire to redefine “child” as “anyone under 18” but it doesn’t really seem like the goal is protecting children.

the goal is to take away self-determination laws from teenagers so their parents/church/wannabe representative can control them better.

it actually starts to make a whole lot of sense once you realize these laws are literally targeted to control people. if you can’t meet people because you can’t go out alone because you need a fucking car to drive anywhere, and if you can’t be in romantic relationships with other people who might show you other ways of seeing the world, you’re essentially making sure that your child grows up in a controlled, christian, or whatever, neighborhood. it’s to keep the “dangerous” ideologies (such as anarchism) away from teenagers, because otherwise they could learn to see the world differently and might start questioning the authorities who always told them what to think, do and want.