Socialism
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what the fuck...
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Socialism
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LITERALLY THOUGH i just have like discord and youtube (and whatsapp i guess) but like not snapchat or instagram or reddit or twitter or like really anything... its like no i dont want snapchat stop telling me to get it...
Shavi Masee
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I've got Whatsapp and youtube, that's it T-T. Bos is my next place, literally, which is sad.
i don't get how they're gonna ban yt though...
Socialism
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nah i think they excluded youtube because teachers complained that they used it too often... so i think that supposedly isnt counted... but videogames potentially are???
hi_998
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no literally i find the government banning it for under 16s as a great way to start a movement of this rule being placed worldwide but at the same time i feel like banning it, is also just gonna make it worse. like cos if im being honest my daily screen time is 6 hours and its geniunely embarrasing for me to say. i regret it alot but at the same timei genuinely cannot help it. but yeah our generation is so reliant on technology, especially social media, so i have a feeling some kids r just gonna get their way through the ban by like faking their age etc.
Socialism
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its also so crazy like are we all gonna have to attach our faces to our accounts now? because the government apparently ruled out forcing id's so now tech companies have to use face scanning technology...
which incidentally has failure rates that increase if you are female or black or like minority
ALSO what if i want to shave my face and im 16? theres no way it can tell the difference between a hairless 15 yr old and a hairless 16 yr old
which incidentally has failure rates that increase if you are female or black or like minority
ALSO what if i want to shave my face and im 16? theres no way it can tell the difference between a hairless 15 yr old and a hairless 16 yr old
Socialism
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who??? where tf did this come from??? i'm sixteen and also i was talking about a face age estimator not anything weird so thats on you
Shavi Masee
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literally...
it could also mentally affect kids who are chronically online too. I think it really depends on how people under 16 take it...a challenge (finding different ways to get through it) mental affects, social affects, going outdoors instead as a result etc.
actually that's really good since to watch 18+ youtube videos, I had to verify my age, and one way was to use this exact face age estimator... it thought I was above 18 lol
Socialism
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i think someone reported something because there's a webmaster in chat???? i'm so confused what did i do
Shavi Masee
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since when were there 18+ yt videos wth
Shavi Masee
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i don't think you did anything... atleast not that i know of
snapchat is literally the most useless app in existence anyway
face scanning technology would just cause more problems since different people grow at different rates. there's literally no telling how they're going figure out who's under 16 and who isn't
I'm 17 and still look like a 13 year old because I'm asian, by scanning my face they're going to assume I'm not old enough and ban me 
Shavi Masee
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fr i'm turning 16 soon and the other day the office lady thought I was in yr 7 T-TI'm 17 and still look like a 13 year old because I'm asian, by scanning my face they're going to assume I'm not old enough and ban me
totally_screwed
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real
I worked in retail last year (age 20) and one weekday morning this lady walked in and the store was empty besides me doing stuff at the back, and she looked rlly concerned and flabbergasted and I was like hi can I help u, and she was like "shouldn't you be at school rn???" and we talked for a minute and I realised she thought I was 15 and forced into child labour
LMAO NO WAYreal
I worked in retail last year (age 20) and one weekday morning this lady walked in and the store was empty besides me doing stuff at the back, and she looked rlly concerned and flabbergasted and I was like hi can I help u, and she was like "shouldn't you be at school rn???" and we talked for a minute and I realised she thought I was 15 and forced into child labour
hardstuck10th
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Bro your like 21 hop off wtf is wrong with you get a life or smth most dead thing I've read this weekreal
I worked in retail last year (age 20) and one weekday morning this lady walked in and the store was empty besides me doing stuff at the back, and she looked rlly concerned and flabbergasted and I was like hi can I help u, and she was like "shouldn't you be at school rn???" and we talked for a minute and I realised she thought I was 15 and forced into child labour
You do realise most 21 year olds are still uni students? You sound like a fucking idiot telling a student to get a life lmao