Elderly Politicians

TBF Zoomers and Alphas look to be inheriting that tech illiteracy

To me it seems that the most effective regulations are to ban the use of black box algorithms in content presentation, create a tiered list of required security standards to be licensed to handle different kinds of sensitive information, nationalize the telecom lines and force all them to share those lines and compete equally in all markets except if they're a municipal telecom, require social networks to federate via a unified social networking protocol to break the monopoly of "it's where my friends are", require multi factor authentication to prevent mass botting, and to require services above a certain number of active users to provide an ad-free version for an equal value to the average advertising profit per user.

Also data agnostic advertising

TBF Zoomers and Alphas look to be inheriting that tech illiteracy
It’s because GenZ/Alpha has grown up in a world where technology just works. They’ve never had to troubleshoot drivers, or reinstall their OS after improperly shutting their computer down. Plus 90% of their tech use is on mobile, which is constantly in the annual update cycle and constantly backed up to the cloud. So if the tech ever stops working, they can just replace it with the newest model, sync their new phone to the cloud, and it’s as if they never had any issues.
And this isn’t a bad thing. But it means that they’ve never had to develop those troubleshooting skills.
The sad part is I disagree with most of what you just said. I guess part of the issue is no one can agree on things.
- IMO most laws should be at the level of goals, and the agencies implementing them should get down and dirty with how that should be achieved. So the upthread comment would be appropriate for whatever agency is tasked with implementing a last stating "social networks may not cause user lock in".

Does the TikTok have access to your home wifi network?

In all seriousness: yes. Any app or even website can scan your local network and attempt to access other devices. This is apparent in the fact that dedicated network scanner apps like Fing don't require any permissions to scan your network, therefore any app can if it wanted to.
That one made me cringe hard when I first heard it.
- The app of course needs access to the Internet, through your WiFi or mobile Internet. However, depending on the app, phone OS and the security configuration of your local network setup it could have access to other devices as well.
  But that's usually on purpose or by accident of the user. In court, one valid question could be if TikTok tries to make use of such a configuration, and for what reasons.
  So I think the question itself is not that bad, if it got a clarification / follow-up question like the above.

My second to youngest brother is technically illiterate. Meanwhile my eldest brother is very technically literate and both are completely different generation (younger than boomer) but of the conservative mindset .

my youngest brother is technically literate and liberal. He’s of the same generation as the illiterate brother.

A does not equal B. These kind of fallacy arguments of ‘how generations be’ really need to stop.

What are you talking about? Dinner of these senators can barely string together a thought. Can they email? They certainly can't foresee the societal implications of AI, it's impact, how it works. How can they offer oversight?
- You just described several of my relatives of the younger generation . Just cuz a person was born in the technical era does not make them a technical genius.

And we keep electing them.

It's a series of tubes.

I mean ultimately, at that point in time, as far as describing the physical infrastructure of underground telecomm lines... its not an entirely innacurate description.
It leaves out the entire concept of software and DNS and everything about how websites and IP protocols and such actually work but uh... there at least actually are a series of tubes, lol.
- I hate to defend it. But considering he was trying to present an analogy his peers could understand, I get it. You can build a bigger pipe, add more pipes, or push the water faster. It's not far off the mark in that respect to the analogy.
  And you're right about exclusion of networking principles. You could build a very convoluted model of water distribution using networking rules.
- Pretty much. The only real difference between plumbing and the internet is everything but the pipes.

Meanwhile millenials and genz: still using chrome ..

…“Alexa play my fav mix with the disco lights plz k thnx.”

why should either of those things be illegal?
- I think the joke is people still use services with known privacy issues because it's 1. Convenient, and 2. Already in their spheres of use
- Who said anything about legality? I’m responding to a poorly thought-out, ageist meme about not understanding implications when all generations are making this mistake very regularly.

I think the issue is everyone is willing to tell them what they are doing wrong but no one knows what we need to do right.

I'm sure Diane Feinstein's handlers are trying to get a hold of Mitch's necromancer.