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[–] strawberry@kbin.run 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue that its not as bad. socials are public, phone numbers are not. don't mean to defend them, they shouldn't be messaging minors in any capacity without explicit consent

[–] ech@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Socials being "public" doesn't mean every single thing about the person is publicized (though, I admit, it could be depending on the person). If this is Instagram, afaik there's no "I go to X HS" bio-line option, so unless the user explicitly lists it themselves, that suggests recruiters are analyzing their posts to connect them to a school, and/or linking them to other users they already know. That is explicitly worse, imo.

[–] strawberry@kbin.run 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean school could have given them a list

idk there's no point arguing what's worse, they're both bad and should not happen

[–] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

For one, you literally started this argument. Second, schools giving them a list doesn't make it better either.

I will agree it's all bad, though. The sheer impudence to do anything like this is just awful. "Hey child! I know you never asked for this discussion, but do you wanna fight and die for a military system that will use shady af data acquisition just to pose this shitty question to you? We can give you an education that should be affordable to anyone but absolutely isn't. You're probably poor right?"