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Re:Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' by anon84873628 on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:44AM (#43729154)
There was just another article on HN about how Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale. Not just giving them access to drugs, violence, pedophiles, and extortionists, but actively connecting them with those accounts. Kids have died from fentanyl or committed suicide from bullying and harassment.

Porn addiction is bad but it seems there are even worse things happening.

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Re:Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' by Tokumei-no-hito on Friday April 18, 2025 @02:25PM (#43730613)
minor correction, it was about tiktok. and although it's a long read it's worth understanding just how absurd things have gotten.

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok

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Re:Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' by anon84873628 on Friday April 18, 2025 @02:39PM (#43730735)
By the time I got there, dang updated the link to the same publication's article on Snapchat, since the TikTok one had been discussed already.
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