This week's child safety hearing had some good ideas in it. But we should be realistic about how much we can make teens safer and healthier when they face so many other challenges https://www.platformer.news/thursday-newsletter/
@caseynewton I'm looking at one of the links there.
Notice they've (vague they) engaged in the same "AI" (it's not intelligent) fearmongering for over a year (every month, or more frequently, where someone acts as if the "end is suddenly here") with a flimsy argument (relying a lot on "saving the children"[1]), it seems presumptions, and contradictions in what they say (i.e. trying to play up the practical significance, and being caught out for instance, saying it's fairly easy to handle these in a report hardly anyone reads).
It also puts a large emphasis on content (here, even lumping in non-existent people, which is problematic), rather than conduct (i.e. harassment), which tends to be what issues primarily involve. Repeating that people are not typically evil for the sake of being evil, and it seems that criminals already have a grounds to be punished over. It also seems rather confused, often talking in a "War on Drugs" type fashion, with this impossible mentality that censorship can magically solve the world's problems (rather than the more likely scenario of creating problems), one which tends to distract from better ideas. It feels rather one dimensional. It also uniquely elevates the opinions of people who only seem to know how to arrest people[2] of what to do.
Though, it (briefly) uses the term "realistic" (which I suppose is better), language like this is actually fairly fuzzy (and has been misused in the past). There is a saying there is no such thing as "realistic" as well. But, in any case, it still has a hard time escaping from these same "War on Drugs" type dynamics.
Perhaps, one parallel issue which comes to mind is the case of *that* (adult) "celebrity deepfake", but then, that is comparing apples to oranges... (and maybe, a group of internet trolls, or that is what was conveyed to me, is harassing...?) It is also probably one which would be impossible without a so-called "one stop shop"[3], and perhaps, the unique factors around Twitter's management. It's hard to look at that particular case, and to presume the same dynamics here (it's also hard to imagine it would make a practical difference with Twitter).
Also, [4] still applies.
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
