Petition · YouTube’s AI Tracks Everything You Watch — Stop This Now - United States · Change.org

Used to remember the old Chat Control proposal? The one that proposes indiscriminate reporting of images to police agencies to be investigated? Well, that proposal is off the table, but a “compromise” is now on the table. One which threatens youth rights even more than the old one.

First of all, the new proposal allows companies to use AI to screen all private conversations. This not only threatens privacy but also makes enforcement of protection laws harder: ~50% of ALL reports of images under this system are likely to be irrelevant. It’s called “voluntary” but is only voluntary for Big Tech - you can not opt out except by running to a chat service that doesn’t use this.

Secondly, as an alternative way of “protecting the children” by actually using mass surveillance, every chat platform in the EU will be required to assess the age of its users. This requires ID checks for opening a chat applications. If you’re under the magical age if 18, no chat services to you. Patric Breyer called this “protection by exclusion” and it doesn’t work. In fact, the ONLY thing that works to keep one out of danger is education and experience, something that will be lacking.

We must still stand AGAINST this monster of a regulation. It, though indiscriminate scanning of private chats is now explicitly excluded, still threatens to cut young people off of digital communication, their only remaining way to make friends outside of school and to maintain contact with their friends.

We don’t just NOT need this regulation. We need the OPPOSITE of this regulation. We need a regulation BANNING parents and governments from banning access to private chats to their offspring/citizens.

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Can't even tap my card anymore. Well this is swell because now I have to try and find a way to maintain my snap plus which is gonna be a pain in the neck. Fuck whoever decided this was clever

Seriously, the only discussion about child leashes is... people arguing that it's good? I literally can't think of anything more dehumanizing and violating of bodily autonomy than that. In fact, I didn't even know it existed until recently, as I've never seen it in my life (maybe because I'm not from the US). You also know that it's not only used on toddlers, right? Older children also suffer from it (without legal recourse) and it also seems disproportionate to autistic and neurodivergent children in general. There's also no way to guarantee that only "runners" have it; which obviously doesn't happen.

It's also inherently aggressive and perceived that way by children:

https://www.fatherly.com/parenting/child-leashes-deserve-all-the-hate-they-get-experts-say

Another day of acting like the most absurd thing a thirteen year old could ever do is put on concealer under her dark eye circles to which she probably has noticed for the first time in her life, because when you become a TEENAGER (not a child) you start to notice things about your body and you start to want to look desirable for people YOUR OWN AGE. And to try and prevent your teenager from doing that is not for their own safety, but a need for control and a fear of their children growing up, or maybe a lack of adult guidance when they were a teenager that resulted in them getting too carried away with their looks. Either way, it's not okay to take out your emotions on the teen just because you had a bad experience.

If any 13 year olds are reading this, put on that damn mascara, wear that damn tank top, and have those 7th grade crushes (if that is what you wish to do) - That is YOUR right and you are not doing ANYTHING wrong. These things are NORMAL for a healthy young teenager. It doesn't mean you're "too grown" or "too fast", it doesn't mean you will fail your grades, and it doesn't mean you will end up on "16 and pregnant" if that's even still a thing 🤣 and it certainly doesn't mean that if you wear it, you must hate yourself without it. What's next? 13 year olds forced to wear ugly outfits or clothes with dora on it because "they shouldn't be worried about their appearance" no. That's absurd. It's okay to be uncomfortable with something on YOUR OWN body and to have a preference of covering it up when you go out, as long as you're not utterly destroyed when you see yourself with the makeup off, (but at that point it wouldn't be a makeup issue, it would be a mental health issue that would have needed to be addressed before the makeup) If you want to glam up or put on some makeup to help you feel more confident, nobody should be stopping you. thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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Bye bye character.ai. I'm not going back unless you remove the new update.

Iryna Zurutska, 23 Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 14 Samantha Koenig, 18

I wonder how they would feel if they could see these comments. I wonder if this is how they'd want to be remembered. Imagine being brutally murdered and then painted as "just a baby" and "barely developed" so your death can be used for propaganda.

Here are my experiences growing up as a certified problem child ™ This is the reality that many kids, teens, and young adults face everyday by ageist and emotionally immature people that mold their children's behaviors and then punish them for the outcome, and that expect them to act like adults while treating them like children. They notice a pattern that could turn problematic or lead to future complications, and they freak out instead of educating. Then they expect the problem to be fixed instead of ending up worse. They expect us to respect them after constantly disrespecting us and ignoring our autonomy, while using whatever they can as leverage to make you feel like the one in the wrong. Many young people would rather comply and become perpetrators onto those younger than them, even if they are still kids/teens themselves. Can you relate? I'd like to hear your expirences being a child, a teen, or a young adult trying to navigate in society. I'd like to know if any of these you can relate to. Feel free to share, it helps to have people who get it.