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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Don't stop at social media. Put that same limit on religion, too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's norway, so that's kinda pointless

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 day ago (12 children)

"Are you 15 or more years old? Y/N"

There, that fixed the problem.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (10 children)

IIRC Norway has an actual Nat ID system, so assuming they develop a workable API for it ðis could actually be implemented quite easily.

Preventing kids stealing ðeir parents' IDs to open accounts anyway will be ð actual challenge.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"? I can't guess if it's some kind of technical issue with federated text, something from a different language you're incorporating, or one of those "I think we should add x symbol to the language so I'll use it to draw attention to the effort" deals, like with the people that use the combined !? symbols whenever both are relevant at once.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's a thorn, a letter making a th sound. Still in use in Icelandic, I think. In English, it's archaic at best.

Fun fact, when it fell out of use, the letter Y was used to replace it for a while. So when you see something saying "ye olde", verbally it's still "the old".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I actually always wondered about the y in old texts. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

What ð heck are are you talking about, it looks normal. To me. Maybe ðeres someðing wrong wið your computer.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m probably doing exactly what they want here (e.g. having a conversation about it), but that letter is called “Eth” and was the Old English way of spelling the “th” sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

A number of linguistic buffs want to bring it back to the modern English alphabet.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

True but would you prefer weak enforcement or strong enforcement?
Strong enforcement would likely involve the government having better records of your browsing habits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My government already knows all of my kinks, I include a list of all the porn I watched each year with my tax return. They don't ask for that, but I provide it anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I prefer weak enforcement every time. It's effective for kids who would follow the law anyway, and it doesn't push the kids to use more covert means if they wouldn't follow the law anyway. The latter group is therefore much easier to monitor using standard tools, and good parents with deviant children can use that effectively to help solve their problems before they become more serious.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If anything, it would be far better to ban people above a certain age from social media. I’ve seen far more older people get sucked in by online misinformation and become extreme conspiracy theorists than kids.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (9 children)

It's not the government's job to tell adults to not partake in self-harm. Kids don't know better.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I really dislike this sort of daddy over reach but it seems like this is the only way to make corpos get real about enforcement.

This would result needing to provide ID to use normie social media?

How would this even work globally and on places like fediverse tho?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

How do they define what a social media is?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (10 children)

And most importantly: How would they enforce that? Kids have been lying about their ages since the dawn of internet.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think they really need to.

Laws are often just an acknowledgement of a society's expectation.

"We've all decided that kids under 15 using social isn't great."

The fact that this law exists makes it infinitely b easier for parents to establish and maintain rules in their household, because peer pressure is minimised.

Yes, some kids will still use social before they're 15. Perhaps most kids. However, I think harmfully excessive use will be minimised.

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