"The counters of the music stores are loaded with this virulent poison, which, in the form of a malarious epidemic, is finding its way into the homes and brains of the youth to such an extent as to arouse one's suspicions of their sanity."
The Etude magazine, January 1900, describing ragtime in an article titled "Musical Impurity".
"X's Yaccarino said the company supported the STOP CSAM Act, legislation introduced by Durbin that seeks to hold tech companies accountable for child sexual abuse material and would allow victims to sue tech platforms and app stores."
Of course they do. It would wipe out small to medium platforms and entrench the current oligopoly of big DataFarms. Don't be fooled, this is regulatory capture at work.
"To be honest, I am pulling my hair out over 'online safety' bills that pretend to be focused on helping young people when they’re really anti-tech bills that are using children for political agendas in ways that will fundamentally hurt the most vulnerable young people out there."
To login to my bank account on the web, I need 2fa to unlock my desktop password manager, 2fa to unlock my phone, 2fa unlock my mobile password manager, and 2fa unlock the mobile bank app in order to receive their notification that I'm trying to login on the desktop. There's got to be a better way! #security#2fa#thinkofthechildren
As we approach #Halloween, it's time to remind #parents about carefully inspecting their #kids' #candy haul for meth / weed / molly / fentanyl / whatever else.
So, your reminder: don't do it. No one likes your #children enough to give them free #drugs.
@charliejane#ThinkOfTheChildren is never about listening to children and young people say what they need to be safe, like an end to bullying, affirming that they're good people, and ensuring they have knowledge, support and appropriate health care to grow to match their innate sense of themselves whatever that means.
Kids who want to dance should be supported to be dancers even if they use wheelchairs (ref disabled friends who dance). Trans and nonbinary kids need support not silencing.
Social media apps will have to shield children from dangerous stunts (www.theguardian.com)
Changes to the online safety bill will order platforms such as TikTok to protect young users from harm or injury