leonvoss

The solution is banning dark patterns at big tech companies, not banning privacy.

When they run out of other rights to destroy, they will pipe videos of little girls crying from food poisoning into your e-verified telescreen during ChildSafe^TM viewing hours, and the result will be that you will get to choose between two state approved restaurants thereafter.

It requires reason to understand the consequences of your decisions. Reason is something democracies have a shortage of. Thus, democracies structurally suffer from issues like this.

their parents won't protect them and everyone else has to pay for it. maybe they shouldn't have been allowed to have kids.

Hundreds? 200 years ago most people did not even have birth certificates. I can think of multiple famous examples of people who lived in Europe 500 to 800 years ago where we don't know their real age. In existing countries with poor state capacity, a lot of people don't have legitimate birth certificates and there is some evidence that they make up their age to some degree. For example on surveys in such countries there are too many people reporting round number ages. My experience in such countries is that you can find very young looking males riding motorcycles late at night around the city and anybody can buy alcohol. That's how it was in the United States "hundreds" of years ago. Please read a book.

Privacy is way more important than protecting kids from consuming content online. Kids already have more protection than it's worth, probably, this is moving in the wrong direction.

You're really charitable to the "United States." There is approximately no reason behind what it does for the most part, it's just an AI made out of biological serfs.

And as we can see with Biden and Trump, 86 is past the the optimal compromise between experience and cognition.

from my POV, other alleged humans are p zombies and might as well be unaligned AIs. The "united states" giving me a list of commands and an AI king doing the same is no different to me phenomenologically

That's not AI.

Statute of limitations for reporting should be 1 year maximum.

There are approximately 3 different human species, if you use the same distance measures that give us dog, wolf, and coyote (which can all interbreed).

I agree with you. I would rather this brain power go to modeling genetics, politics, and evolution. Fake problems like the sofa problem are overcelebrated while important issues like theory of eugenics are villified and undercelebrated.

Du bist total falsch. Das Recht deines eigenen Landes sagt Mädels über 14 Jahre dürfen zum Sex freilich annehmen.

Teenage girls cannot currently be charged with illegal sex acts when they sleep with older men, but they can be charged with "child sex trafficking" when they offend against other teenage girls.

Epstein was definitely guilty of prostituting, at least for himself, girls between 14 and 17 years old. I personally think young women of that age should know better than to be prostitutes for rich guys, and there's no evidence he ever coerced them to do anything. He lured them purely with money and promises of status. There is plenty of testimony of the girls refusing to touch him and they leave, often with money still in-hand and an offer to come back with more girls. They should know they are themselves "child sex traffickers" if they come back with their underaged friends, and they themselves should have been prosecuted along with Epstein and Maxwell.

Epstein didn't rape any children, he had a harem of young women. Some of the women were under 18, but all of them were old enough to be held responsible for their part in the crime, that is, being prostitutes. Many even have admitted to comitting "child" sex trafficking by inviting girls from their high schools to be prostitutes.

it is just so interesting to see the connections between the elite.

Did you imagine rich and successful, high status people hang out with random wage workers they find in a bar somewhere in the midwest?