Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media

Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by miki123211 on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:28PM (#46843344)

There are two problems in computer science, accepting payments and naming things.

Reddit's principal problem is that the first person to take r/foo is often a BDFL for foo for life, and no other subreddit about foo will ever be quite as recognizable. If we instead had subreddits with a numeric ID and a non-unique display name, that problem would be solved.

Payments would also solve the spam problem, but many users who have $1 can't easily get that $1 to Reddit, so that's not really an option either.

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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by direwolf20 on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:23PM (#46843597)

Reddit is eager to remove mods who it disagrees with. Any remaining mods are there because Reddit approves of them.

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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by miroljub on Sunday February 01, 2026 @04:42AM (#46844862)

Don't you understand that paying even one cent to Redeit (or any other social media) would completely deanonymise it?

So yeah, I'd rather live with spam than with whatever public online identities give any government.

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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:27AM (#46845432)

> Don't you understand that paying even one cent to Redeit (or any other social media) would completely deanonymise it?

For a site of that size I wonder if it wouldn't work to just have them sell gift cards in physical retailers and then you could buy one for cash.

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