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Because they are children who can’t and haven’t consented to have their likeness posted all over social media, to be used as training data on an ever growing corpus of privacy destroying tech.

Additionally, pedophiles and creeps do actually exist.

I love that I get this question all the time, when from where I sit, the question should be to all the other parents: "Why do you insist on posting your children and their entire lives on social media?"



As someone who's entire life from infancy to adulthood has been published and catalogued on Facebook by my parents, I think your children will certainly appreciate what you've done one day.

It's something you can't ever get back once its out there, and we all know Facebook is perfectly happy selling out user's pictures as training data for AI companies.




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