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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Australia bans social media for under 16s

www.theverge.com

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Australia bans social media for under 16s

www.theverge.com

misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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Now platforms have to figure out how to enforce it.
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      That would require us paying one parent enough to cover the other parent being a child care expert. But nobody gets to profit off of that so fuck society, everybody works, and nobody gets community goods except the wealthy.

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          if social media is fediverse, you’re right; if social media is agents of surveillance capitalism, fuck social media

          what’s “social” about what most people call social media?

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              even YouTube got in an exception list. So it’s not an “all or nothing” approach, it seems.

              • Lemmy is too small for governments to care
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                  even “crash course” alone is enough of a reason to keep YouTube accessible

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          but but that requires actually effort and budget that we’d have to take away from Australian oligarchs!

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          A social safety net you say… like a place we could gather all the children to teach them things and let them play under supervision?

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              What? No! They can have their own age appropriate place to learn and play under supervision.

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                  But what about those Parental Responsibilities you were talking about earlier? Are you saying we now need extra social safety nets for kids who don’t fit the mold and get bullied? Extra places for them to learn and play under supervision? Because I don’t think that’s going to be economical without boarding them there, away from their parents.

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      This isn’t even delegating. It’s more of an equivalent of stuffing your fingers into your ear holes and going “nanananan CAN’T HEAR YOU”

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      Parents should be Parenting?

      If they haven’t been parenting what have they been doing for the last 40 years?

      And if thwy have been parenting how’s that workout for us so far?

      There’s been no age ban on social media since the internet was founded but there’s record mental health crisis on young people.

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      Yeah! Parents should totally be allowed to give their car keys to their 14 year old to go out and drive drunk if they feel their kid can handle it.

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