Das viertbevölkerungsreichste Land der Welt verbietet die meisten sozialen Medien für Kinder
https://gizmodo.com/fourth-most-populous-country-in-the-world-bans-most-social-media-for-kids-2000739379
Das viertbevölkerungsreichste Land der Welt verbietet die meisten sozialen Medien für Kinder
https://gizmodo.com/fourth-most-populous-country-in-the-world-bans-most-social-media-for-kids-2000739379
14 Kommentare
TL;DR: Indonesia bans everyone under 16 years of age from social media
Just name the fucking country in the title.
Another country falls for the fallacy that banning social media for kids will change anything.
The country is Indonesia.
Also maybe I am getting older, or I just had kids myself… But I don’t hate this at all. Social media is toxic poison when unregulated. Especially so for young children.
Yay!!
Never happen in the US, much ado about nothing.
Another country decided that forcing everyone to give up even more personal information to tech companies is a good idea.
Indonesia is a country where being gay is illegal in some areas, and [most of the population hates gay and lesbian people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Indonesia).
The experts say that there is no safe age verification system, and that all the current/proposed systems are unacceptable: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dangerous-socially-unacceptable-experts-warn-153314818.html
More and more countries keep turning themselves into surveillance states and I’m getting super tired of it.
everyone who thinks this is a good thing is a tool
I think we have enough evidence at this point to feel this is a good idea. I know some people say “it should be up to the parents”, but we don’t apply that logic to cigarettes or alcohol. Nobody says “don’t ban kids from gambling, it should be up to their parents to stop them” or “don’t ban kids from buying beer”.
The reality is that lots of kids out there do not have competent or caring parents, and those kids shouldn’t have to end up fucked in the head because of their misfortune of being born to idiots.
Who else is here to find out which country it is?
This is a bad thing, not because it’s keeping kids off of social media. But because we’re one step closer to needing to give your government ID to use the Internet.
Or using face data to access the Internet, a very dangerous path to walk down.
Indonesia. The next superpower.
UK here, and our government is inching towards an age ban as well.
It’s so cute how people think the government cares about the mental health of their precious children, as opposed to using children as an excuse for authoritarian surveillance and control.