Re: What IS "Social Media"??

On 6 Feb 2026 12:17:00 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

>   As mentioned in Carlos' references, the age check facility will be
> provided by an independent organization (probably government
> controlled).

Probably.

> The social media platform just sends a request to this
> facility asking whether or not the prospective user has the required
> minimum age and gets back a yes/no indication.
> 
>   The platform does not get a name or the actual age or any other
> information. They get what they need (yes/no), nothing more.

Tnx for educating me, because that was not how I thought it worked.
 
>   We - in The Netherlands - already have a similar system for different
> purposes, so yes it can be done.

I can imagine not everyone is happy about it. This system could be
(ab)used to track people, in principle. What if such a system was
hacked?
 
>   Of course  the 'social media' companies - and especially their rabid
> owners - pretend that such a system is not possible, so they have a
> 'reason' for continuing spreading their bile, influencing politics,
> elections, supporting extreme anti-democratic parties, etc., etc..

So they'll probably be fined with a slap on the wrist, a couple million
euro, while raking in millions more in the process.

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s|b