Dear billionaires with space rocket companies,

Would you mind take a quick break from corroding Western democracy to fix the Hubble?

Or, those lawsuits are specifically the reason why the scouts are now the safest youth organization, and why they made these videos.

Watch the videos before criticizing them. They are really good.

Father died from colon cancer when I was very young. It was very hard on my family.

That’s the main thing I’ve tried to correct as a parent.

That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure. My family eats at least one a week.

In Dallas, you can get one at Sam’s Club or Costco for $5.

And “old” in this case means “cooked this morning”.

Rotisserie chicken is like the absolute cheapest food a person can buy.

They were so… Innocent.

Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?

I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.

Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.

Scouting America is a nearly completely volunteer organization. Their technology is generally about 20 years behind because it’s all pieced together by volunteers that “kinda done something like this for my company once”.

Blame the victim.

Of course parents also have a responsibly to keep their children safe. But it can’t ONLY be on the parents. The platforms need accountability too.

Do I admit that I came here to shill for child safety policies?

Guilty as charged.

I don’t care.

If I can get some people on this site to start thinking about child safety in new ways that will be a win for me today.

The only real solution is for the parents/guardians to be engaged and involved in their childrens’ lives.

I don’t agree with that. It’s not all on the parents. It can’t be all on the parents.

This is like if the Boy Scouts said “Hey, it’s not our responsibility to protect kids. The parents should have been more involved.” No, if you are providing the service then it’s your responsibility to make sure that service is safe.

And yes, I believe you should be held accountable for the services you provide.

ID and age verification for users.

That’s not the only solution, and I’ve offered several others. And I’m also not the only one with ideas. But completely frictionless encrypted anonymous one-to-one communication is probably not going to last much longer. And shouldn’t.

Not exactly, and not for long. Mastodon, for example, is working on end-to-end encryption in messages. Matrix is also private by design.

And again, it’s not that I think end-to-end encrypted one-to-one messaging is bad. But if you are going to offer it then you need to be held responsible for it.

Remember, I originally started this chain by asking you if every single site online should be forced to implement age-ID and you said yes.

Fair. But I really meant that every network should have policies in place, where as age-verification is one option. Elsewhere on this thread you’ll see that I offer alternative solutions, such as simply keeping everything public and not allowing 1-to-1 messaging.

I’m only going to say this one more time.

They 100% will care.

How would they know?

Well, if, and really when, a predator is caught by the police, that police department will do a full investigation and find all the places they are having communications with kids. Sooner or later, one will be found to be using Lemmy. On that day, the host is going to need a good lawyer.

It’s not enough to “not allow this”. A person that allows anonymous strangers to use their servers to store information in secret is asking for trouble. They need to take much more care than that.

And I never said that age-verification is the only solution to this problem. >>