I don't want my children's attention stolen and for them to be radicalised by social media. Yes, I am aware that parents need to put in work, which I do. But fighting against billion dollar corporations is a losing battle unless numbers are on your side.

The only way to the pendulum swings in favour of common people is with the help of government. I know is an unpopular opinion, but I trust a Labour government in the UK more than Meta and Tiktok, that's for sure.

If VPN providers are enabling age restrictions to be bypassed then sorry, either they play nice or they get blocked as well.

Everything else aside from age restrictions (and the accompanying social media ban) I am broadly sympathetic with, and I wouldn't deny age restrictions are being used as a way to get more access to private data that should be accepted.

If there was a way to pick out the overreach I would support that, but in general I will vote for age restrictions and social media bans.

OpenAI et al are creating the information and publishing/delivering it to you. Seems like a more direct facilitation.

Of course, after all knowledge is centralised in an OpenAI deatacenter I'm sure they will be happy to deal fairly with the liabilities /s.

There are legitimate reasons for governments to intercept information, with the correct oversight -- enforced legally in an "checks and balances" manner. The fact that there is a breakdown of trust between government and people won't be solved with more encryption.

Parents can't control what their children are doing 24/7, and neither should they. But they should expect a society where children are protected from billion dollar corporations stealing their attention and radicalising them, at least until they are old enough to leave mandatory schooling.

There are many "real world" age restrictions that exist, and we have decided those are of benefit to society in general. The "online world" is no different.

If we can't have age restrictions online then they should just be abolished in the real world as well, in the name of preserving "privacy and freedom". The online world doesn't exist in isolation like it did in the 90s and 00s.

What is wrong with going to A&E for an (as you said yourself) emergency?

A pharmacist dispenses medications and should know about their safe usage. They won't tell you how to bandage a wound.

Integrating AI with existing tools to improve productivity is harder and requires effort and investment...

Preventing new human generated text from being used by AI firms (without consent) seems like a valid strategy.

At least the Chinese tech will be available to European consumers, nothing says insecure like pretending a competitor doesn't exist.

Now with smaller family units and less community interaction they represent a risk to security, mainly financially.

Their hand was forced in the end. They have to consolidate PC and Xbox users to compete.

The idea of a machine with a locked down mode that can boot legacy Xbox titles and probably run competitive games with very little chance for cheating is interesting. But given Microsoft's track record with consumer devices I await to be convinced.

Valve should be worried if they do turn out something good, maybe this will mean the Steam machines are pushed more aggressively price wise. We can hope...

In this specific case maybe Vance is least worst option.

If people still elevate the worst candidate to POTUS after that, then blaming the voter might be in order.

The Iranian regime was on it's way out. A government can't survive killing that many of its own people. But as has been shown many times, the average person will choose opressive order over chaos.

The Iranian people were dangerously close to taking their country back, Isreal made sure that won't happen.