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

Does the TikTok have access to your home wifi network?

Considering the discussion here around tech literacy, I'd like to share this insight: technology access is not technology literacy.

Many, many years ago, we could conflate the two and did so freely. Say, back before 2010 or so. Nowadays, everyone has a very powerful computing device in their pocket, but not everyone fully comprehends how it works. And unfortunately, concepts like digital securtiy, digital rights management, digital privacy, and so on, are still squarely in the literacy camp.

I can't say for sure what proportion of the population is in the full comprehension group, but I suspect it's still in the minority.

Automobiles are a great analogue of this: we're 100 years in and everyone is (still) not a mechanic, nor do they make decisions like one.

Even with access to the entire internet, search engines, discussion forums, etc. it's still tough to move the needle on politically charged IT issues. Education and awareness are key to solving all this. Generational differences and exposure to technology at different points in its evolution are not, and never will be, enough.

It's a series of tubes.

I mean, yeah, but also, even younger politicians are clueless. Have you seen Boebert or MTG?

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.

tbh a lot of it is probably malice too

And we keep electing them.

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.

Meanwhile millenials and genz: still using chrome ..

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

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