Re: What IS "Social Media"??

On 2026-02-06 14:37, s|b wrote:
> 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.

Me neither, but it seems viable to me.

>   
>>    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?

Payments with cards is done that way here. The shop doesn't see the card 
data.


>>    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.
> 

Who knows. Some fines in France are pretty large.

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Cheers, Carlos.
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