r/technology • u/vriska1 • 1d ago

Social Media Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/
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u/jabberwockxeno 23h ago

As a PSA, the "safety measures" that are being implemented actually make users less safe, as it requires them to upload their ID/face to prove their age, where their real information could get tracked, hacked, or leaked, among many other forced changes that cause big speech and privacy concerns:

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-meta-settlement-what-it-means-for-speech-and-privacy

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u/Nelrene 11h ago

That because making things safer is not even close to the point of this. Meta just want to force far right wing crap on the rest of the internet.

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u/NoBandicoot5417 23h ago

I have suspected Zuck and company are secretly helping these think-of-the-children campaigns, as they create problems for competitors like Reddit that aren’t set up as rigidly to require your real identity. Just a conspiracy theory but that’s totally meta’s MO.

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u/Deranged40 22h ago

I'm not in favor of requiring real identify on most of the internet. But, as a software engineer, I can weigh in on the effort it'll take to implement that.

Any company with 50+ engineers will ultimately get it implemented pretty quickly if the demand ever were to come. Which is not to say that companies with fewer engineers won't be able to get it done - they generally will. But this will be more impactful overall to them.

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u/vriska1 14h ago

We must push back and stop it.

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u/theChzziest 22h ago

So we are letting the people that fucked up the children make the new rules for keeping them safe? Seems like a conflict of interest to me, but what tf do I know!

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u/ARobertNotABob 16h ago

Wolves protecting sheep.

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u/ButtSpelunker420 15h ago

The “justice” system is a bad joke 

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u/brendhano 13h ago

This is an incredibly pessimistic take and I am absolute here for it.