Imagine if this was done around the world. And then imagine how empty the Internet would be.
You don't need to ban kids from the Internet. You need to ban pedophiles from it.
We can't rely on the assholes running these site to ban pedophiles. They'd endorse a pedophile president if they thought it would give them less taxes/regulations.
This is a prudent move, we've only seen the very beginnings if the sorts of indoctrination and manipulation our kids might be subjected to.
Never thought I'd sound this way, but i can no longer ignore reality.
So what? There will be a "Yes I'm over 16" check box which will be as meaningful as the "Yes I'm over 18" one on porn sites?
Any hope of governments or social media sites enforcing this will come with big ethical and technical compromises and I dont think anyone is actually going to really bother.
We already have limits on what children do with other potentially harmful things like fire, sharp objects, heights and roads and they all come from parents. If this law has any real and positive impact it will be the message that it sends to parents.
Then I read that chat apps and YouTube would not be banned, and scoffed
Literally chat apps are social media. You can post stories and pump memes and news. You can even have bots that scrape and post content. YouTube is just a matter of checking a box whether it's "for kids" and they already do that. Basically the whole thing is stupid
So even in perfect scenario where this ban "works" it would still have zero intended effect as teens can consume all of that rubbish but not talk back and can jolly continue any harm on "allowed apps" like wtf is even this supposed to do lmao
Another way to look at this is a back channel method of breaking down the big tech oligopoly.
I'm all for this. Kids are smart. They start using the rest of the internet. They'll become tech savvy.
So.... they banned social media for a whole 15 seconds?
Now ban everyone else (except Lemmy of course).
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