I honestly just think you're wrong. I can see the point you'd like to make. I can give you the benefit of the doubt that social media as it is isn't great. But I also think you're wrong

I have read them. Cigarettes give you cancer and is not a hard drug. But it wasn't my argument. I would think if they're arguing it so blatantly they would have even a basic summary of why.

This is patriot act levels of invasion. I need some damn answers why we're doing this all again

I don't see how what we're saying is different?

They're going to tie people to their online activities as well as offline. If anyone shows up to a protest, they'll be able to take photos and search for every account you are associated with. Think about the smear they could create with Alex if they had this fully operational now.

That's how they want to verify underage kids. You need to upload photo proof of your ID. I don't think it's a coincidence that agencies like ICE are also taking everyone's pictures to upload to Palantir database.

Can you explain how social media would cause worse outcomes than kids doing hard drugs

Stop. I'm not fucking playing this stupid game. I'm well aware of data brokers and selling our data. This is clearly different uploading pictures of yourself with id as a requirement to access websites.

If she had wheels she'd be a bike

Exactly. I don't think it's a surprise this all aligns with companies like palantir collecting people's images into their database. I have a feeling on the backend these identities will all be used to track people online. Photos of faces and their identities is about to become a hot commodity.

I bet this is related to Palantir facial recognition. Seems like identifying people and feeding it into some database is very important lately.

Age gated? You'd submit your driver's license or identity to these sites?

I'm with you, I just think on top of those we also need to focus on where people are. Facebook does the heavy lifting now. They show you the most popular right wing groups now. It's easy to post to them

I think it's a bold strategy to leave the bigger more populated and used platforms to constantly exist on the smaller less relevant ones that never grow and offer everything the major platforms do just worse.

Shall we take Stalingrad? nonono it's full of nazi's, lets focus on Dieppe

Is that enough? Isn't there only like 11 million on mastadon?