Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.linux Subject: Re: What IS "Social Media"?? Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 15:02:19 +0100 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <10ln2f4$3ihvu$1@dont-email.me> <55ge5mxjh4.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10m4pk2.3cs.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qEvDzmBA+fbHFs7KlX0kYgzqKG+3lucEyD9SQfqAth4nOx8B93 X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:CqX3nAo6X9QrhGuca4geF48QaYM= sha256:WW93nL5rC3Rf0ymPRxQ5ylt0ArkuGtLqpGdzOqK8Hos= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:29928 alt.comp.linux:4789 On 2026-02-06 14:37, s|b wrote: > On 6 Feb 2026 12:17:00 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote: > >> As mentioned in Carlos' references, the age check facility will be >> provided by an independent organization (probably government >> controlled). > > Probably. > >> The social media platform just sends a request to this >> facility asking whether or not the prospective user has the required >> minimum age and gets back a yes/no indication. >> >> The platform does not get a name or the actual age or any other >> information. They get what they need (yes/no), nothing more. > > Tnx for educating me, because that was not how I thought it worked. Me neither, but it seems viable to me. > >> We - in The Netherlands - already have a similar system for different >> purposes, so yes it can be done. > > I can imagine not everyone is happy about it. This system could be > (ab)used to track people, in principle. What if such a system was > hacked? Payments with cards is done that way here. The shop doesn't see the card data. >> Of course the 'social media' companies - and especially their rabid >> owners - pretend that such a system is not possible, so they have a >> 'reason' for continuing spreading their bile, influencing politics, >> elections, supporting extreme anti-democratic parties, etc., etc.. > > So they'll probably be fined with a slap on the wrist, a couple million > euro, while raking in millions more in the process. > Who knows. Some fines in France are pretty large. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;