EU plans to ban under-13s from social media, with 'phased access' afterwards (9to5mac.com)

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[-] pilaz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Good. Social media addiction rates are five to ten times those of gambling, and yet we protect those under 18 from accessing those. There is also a strong correlation between heavy social media use and suicidal ideation.

Just FYI, big tech opposes this. Meta is flooding European digital advertising with "Instagram for teenagers", posturing that parents can implement parental controls on who teens can communicate with, as if that were the issue we're trying to fix.

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