I am calling on the Administrator of this Reflector to bring this off
topic thread
to and end. Please focus exclusively to Debian Software Development issues.
A lot of us are NOT on a political reflector for a reason!
Thomas Dineen
On 3/12/2026 8:59 AM, Bigsy Bohr wrote:
On 2026-03-11, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 2:48=E2=80=AFPM Stefan Monnier <[email protected]=
al.ca>
wrote:
Your comment, as well as the comments of others, is orthogonal to the
question: should children be exposed to anything and everything
on the Internet? This has no relation to religious beliefs, of
which I have none, coming from a secular background.
The problem I see with age verification is the way it shifts the
discussion. The real problem is in what it takes to be exposed to
harmful content. By focusing on age-control, we stop discussing the
responsibility of algorithmic propaganda sites (so-called "social
media"), even though it's also very harmful to grown ups (actually, to
society as a whole).
In the US it is difficult to reign in social media. That is why Europe and
Asia need to take the lead, and why Trump is pushing back so hard on
guardrails from Europe and Asia.
Social media reigns, and should be reined in; but the devil as always is
in the details.
