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- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Known as “Project 2029,” the liberal group was formed as a counterweight to the conservative Project 2025 to write a policy agenda for the next Democratic presidential nominee. The group reckons starting with online internet safety — which has widespread Democratic support — will help galvanize the party to address what it calls this generation’s “tobacco moment.”
The proposal also advocates for banning social media accounts for kids under 16 years old, adopting stronger default privacy protections, designing safer internet platforms, banning cell phones in schools (with exceptions), pushing for a smartphone-free childhood until age 14, banning surveillance advertising, and limiting data collection on children.
Another way to introduce Identity verification for using the internet
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DemoKKKrat think tank wonks trying to design a policy program to dethrone the RepubliKKKan grip on national governance: what if we just suggested the same shit that Trump will probably do in a year or so anyway
Gotta outflank him in order to pick up those conservative votes! Just think of how much nicer it will be with Democrats doing the genocides.
It’s against surveillance!
looks inside
Requires age verification
lmao
The ultimate democrat fantasy is losing every election by a 2% margin while holding positions that would get you redacted in a civilized world
I’ll always be amazed at the liberal ability to take a good idea (reducing screen time for children) and trying to implement it in the worst possible way that will piss off the maximum number of people.
banning social media accounts for kids under 16 years old
This shit has to be coming from some international neoliberal thinktank or cabal or something like Trilateral Commission. It’s not being implemented by parties all over the world just on vibes, they have a reason and a purpose and a plan for doing it.
Seriously what is the fucking source? Who is actually behind it?
the genocide was too visible imo
It’s a way to advance ID verification for online posting, allowing for way more extreme censorship and surveillance. Social media is seen by the elites as the reason why antizionism and blaming rich people for societal problems are so widespread.
Originally the idea to restrict internet access for children came from Christian fascist lobby magnates who saw that many children learn about being queer on the internet, taking away that power of agency from their parents. It was just a matter of time before this concept was improved to use language which makes it sound like a good thing to any person who doesn’t think for one second about the implications of such internet restrictions. My suspicion is that Thiel backed think-tanks perfected the narrative and put a lot of money and effort into its advancement. Thiel is also personally benefiting from these restrictions because Palentir is the company that does age verification for most social media in countries where it is now required, and is thus able to sell the valuable information they hoard that are now connected to peoples official ID’s to state authorities.
AI companies are massively pushing this through lobbying as a method of parasitizing tech companies that are not as heavily invested in AI.
This seems to be the only real world application for their overbuilt infrastructure which could survive the bubble popping, if they can get this entrenched before the bubble pops.
I’m sure there are some think-tanks pushing this too, but they’re certainly being unusually quiet about that.
saw this a while back:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
archive of the followup post (got deleted): https://web.archive.org/web/20260314074025/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rtd51g/update_i_pulled_irs_filings_for_the_org_that/
big caveat that this person’s work was revealed to be heavily “AI-assisted”. but still pulls on some interesting threads it seems
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The proposal also advocates for banning social media accounts for kids under 16 years old, adopting stronger default privacy protections, designing safer internet platforms, banning cell phones in schools (with exceptions), pushing for a smartphone-free childhood until age 14, banning surveillance advertising, and limiting data collection on children.
All of this will require age verification to work, which completely defeats the point of “stronger default privacy protections”.
These people think they can do their own project 2025 shit like some kind of rebuttal. it’s too late. It won. Now instead of coming up with a plan on how to dismantle it, they’re just going to try to wallpaper over it with their own project.
It’s going to be such a black pill when Trump just fucks off back to Florida and spends the rest of his life truthing about how Gavin or whoever sucks ass at their job. Dems are going to have their Epstein files moment when they abandon their principled stance as well. They’re going to get that Harry Sisson kid on tiktok to explain how going after Trump will ruin the economy so we can’t do it. It’s going to be great (again).
Tf is it with international liberals and taking internet from kids? If social media is supposedly this harmful, addictive drug in everyone’s pockets at all times, WHY NOT JUST REGULATE IT FOR EVERYONE? Maybe ban companies from neuro-simulatory designs to maximize addiction loops/ engagement? Mandate better screen time controls and open-source, less addictive, less harmful algorithms?
I guess the Meta and tech oligarchs would never agree to that but could get behind banning minors if it reduces their liability in some ways? i.e. they could relax censorship of gore, sketchy porn, and hate speech without worrying about as many lawsuits due to kids being exposed to it
limiting data collection on children
Omfg WHY NOT FOR EVERYONE? At LEAST the turbolibs in the EU Parliament did GPDR
Also, I never really thought about how fucked up it is that companies harbor mass data not just from adults but from kids. Like Meta & Google collect, sell, and buy mountains of files on the detailed engagement history, interests, searches, etc from a bunch of literal preteens…
Makes the framing of “limiting” data collection on kids (instead of “banning”) even more fucking pathetic
They just want the excuse to make everyone use IDs
open-source, less addictive, less harmful algorithms?
oh my god, could you imagine? You would find single issue voters who come out of the wood work for some shit like this. It would be like water in the fucking desert.
Healthcare please
Best we can do is making life worse for childrenUniversal healthcare, gun control (cracKKKer control really), basic income, expanding snap, expanding welfare, rolling back cuts to medicaid, I could go on, but no, the children yearn for id verification to play roblox. PAID TO LOSE.
JFC NO ONE WANTS THIS, NO ONE WANTS IT OR DOES NOT CARE. Why would they not come out the gates swinging to get actual momentum behind them early on? I mean we all know the answer (they do not care about any of the interests of the common person nor do they care to win) but like. God damn this is so so pathetic. I hate them so much
Quick now read 37 comments making fun of his face and call him pet names like mango.
That’ll help.
Will it help, or will it send me off of the edge that I teeter on into a full stroke? Probably the latter
…so does the carbon credit accrue to the think tank, or the politician?
Leftists: “Democrats - what will you do stop Trump/GOP fascism?”
Democrats: “We are introducing legislation to strip privacy on the net in the guise of protecting children!”
Leftists: “Great! Go fuck yourselves.”
Democrats: “Don’t forget to vote! This year and 2028 so we can accomplish this important task!”
Leftists: “Hey! Is our mic even on?”
I’m a Democratic Strategist and I FULLY Support this Idea! By putting in Writing that the Democratic Platform is Enacting EVERYTHING PEOPLE DONT WANT we can ENSURE that our Donors NEVER get Taxed because we’ll NEVER win!
First as tragedy, then as farce.
No phone! Only dangerous and traumatizing meat-processing jobs!Going home after surviving another school shooting to go to my night shift beef boner job at the meat packing plant
banning cell phones in schools (with exceptions), pushing for a smartphone-free childhood until age 14
The first one would not survive a judicial challenge (that kind of regulation is firmly in the state-level realm, not federal), the second one is rich given how many states, blue and red, have heavily integrated smart devices into schooling. The smartphone is a device of evil, but the smart tablet is wondrous ed tech that’s vital for kids to stay competitive in the international marketplace!
It won’t survive tim apple veto lmayo.
(as im lazy to search exact statistics to that effect, its roughly 1/6-7th of usa population just by age bracket, say 1/10th excluding toddlers, so cutting down that addressable market will fuck apple sales, 15 million more or less as half of people use iphones) *and advertising market as well
