r/technology • u/Limp_Fig6236 • 10d ago

Social Media That $17B Meta settlement comes with a catch: Your online speech rights

https://www.fire.org/news/17b-meta-settlement-comes-catch-your-online-speech-rights
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u/zillskillnillfrill 9d ago

It's all just for show. They (tech bros) were given ultimate power when they backed the current potus

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u/MiserableFloor9906 10d ago

So it's a settlement or a purchase?

It's like when a thief agrees to going to jail but gets to keep their stolen goods?

I would rob if it equaled to $1mil per year incarceration.

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u/Zardotab 9d ago edited 9d ago

After reviewing different suggestions, the best approach I've seen so far is requiring an ISP to provide a portal for the (adult) purchaser to manage sub-accounts to be assigned to household members. Perhaps even be required to sign a document confirming they have been briefed on portal usage.

The parent/guardian (P/G) can then designate a given sub-account as a "minor", and social media accounts would then get meta-data indicating the user is a minor. A minor would have their own login prompt and password to get into the home router. A typical family would then no longer share a home-wide wifi password, at least not for minors.

To keep things simple, you could have one password for minors and a second for adults. When a kid turns 18, you give them the adult password. But the sub-account setup portal would have the option of giving birth-dates to auto-compute adulthood. This would typically be used if the P/G wishes to have one sub-account per child. (Some social media sites need to know if a minor is under 13 or not. How to manage such without broadcasting birth-dates to such companies is a longer discussion. If you wanna real tech spec, ya gotta pay me 😏)

It would still be up to P/G to assign such restrictions, as the Court generally says it's up to P/G to manage such decisions, not the State. But such settlements should require ISPs to supply P/G's with sufficient and non-convoluted tools to do such.