Kids and the web latest: 'Won't somebody please think of the children!' US Congresscritters plead

Re: We can protect them from those evil advertisers.

It's probably "too soon" to start talking about protecting kids from bullets.

Re: We can protect them from those evil advertisers.

Says the guy from a country that has a city with a murder rate higher than NYC; life destroying acid attacks; gangs on mopeds; huge groups of child paedophiles; a flourishing child sex trade; and police who withhold evidence from innocent men charged with sex crimes.

Both our countries have huge problems because of a systemic breakdown of our cultures, led by those in the educational systems, and supported by globalist, socialist politicians.

And before any of you point to guns and Conservatives as the problem, let me point out one significant observation: guns, and even kids with access to guns, have been around for centuries. Mass murders were virtually unheard of until recently. What has changed?

Re: Yes, because we all know how well laws work....

Read their T&Cs for Europe - they have COPPA cut-n-pasted into them courtesy of the firm belief that the only law which applies is USA law and it is universal.

So much this.

And they can replace that with GDPR. The boot's on the other foot now.

Who would you vote for in the uk then?

At least they asked when it came to UK sovereignty and membership in the EU. In much of the Western world voting cannot result in any real change. Most in the West did not want to export their jobs and import more workers, spend more money invading other countries and less on fellow citizens and almost none thought that the wealthy shouldn't pay the same total tax rates as the average taxpayer.

Voting did nothing to change those trends. In the USA it results in Trump in Canada it results in Trudeau.

Of course Canadians that know their country (very few have any idea) know that voting cannot change anything significant and it never has. This is because Canada is ruled by the appointed, not the Elected.

Of Canada's three branches of government two are appointed, the Court and Senate, and the third with elected members are controlled by party rule. The Elected do not vote to the benefit of constituents or their hopes and dreams, they vote as told to by the party even when doing so is very much not in the interest of constituents or Canadians. If democracy did manage to break out in the Canadian House of Commons the appointed Senate and Court are there to protect our Elite.

Canadians can wish and vote all they want for some basic rights to their data and data they generate but that's all they can do. Voting can rearrange deck chairs, change the music even but that's about it.

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Who would you vote for in the uk then?

I had a choice of the 3 main parties at the council elections. It really wasn’t much of a choice and was pointless spoiling my ballot as it would not have made a difference here.

We all need to implement the Libertarian practice of automatically adding "None Of The Above" to every ballot.

Re: Well thats one way to up the social media entry age.

In some ways you have to be thankful for US social media companies believing COPPA applies everywhere, because the UK didn't do a damn thing.

Neither did the US - as long as corporations cut & pasted some COPPA boilerplate onto a registration form and added an "I promise I'm over 13, honest" button then everybody pretended all was fine and nobody had to do anything.

Re: Well thats one way to up the social media entry age.

If they applied UK law to UK residents then it would have been a free-for-all from age 0.

If the current crop had any say, the Internet would consist of 'lies told to children' also for adults and nothing else. You wouldn't be able to see any adult content outside of government offices or without signing a register.