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    Meinung: Das Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige ist nicht die Lösung, die wir brauchen

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    1. mummified_cosmonaut on

      This won’t work without parental buy-in and enforcement.

      My British relatives are just spinning up new American online personas by way of VPN to get around all the Digital Safety Act nonsense.

    2. Snurgisdr on

      Social media’s negative effects are **very** clearly not limited to kids. If (very big if) we should have a ban, it should be tied to something like passing a critical thinking skills test, not age.

    3. PineBNorth85 on

      No. We got by just fine without it before it existed. Kids still can.

      We can’t regulate tech companies ourselves because we are too small a market. I’m all for the ban.

    4. Baconus on

      We need to regulate the activities of the tech companies, not just input easily avoided bans and pretend we have fixed it.

      We need to stop the algorithms that are solely predicated on making people angry and breaking down society because they lead to higher profits. These companies have revolutionized hijacking human consciousness and data to make all the money in the world. We should be able to tell them no more.

    5. Lost_Madness on

      As a parent, I am well and capable of policing what my kids have access to. Banning them from social media is just an excuse to police adults veiled under ‚thinking of the children‘.

      Utter garbage. Gambling is bad for everyone, why isn’t that banned?

    6. Dusk_Soldier on

      I used to think these poilicies were hapless and mostly a waste of time. And a holdover from having too many older out-of-touch politcians in charge that don’t understand how the internet works.

      But then a couple weeks ago while watching The Boys, Homelander made an offhand comment about wanting to ban kids from social media because didn’t like the memes they were making about him, and it put this whole goverment social media moral panic in an entire new light for me.

    7. Bubbafett33 on

      Of course it won’t fix anything.

      1) Every middle-schooler will have a way around the ban by the end of recess.

      2) Every adult in Canada is going to have to upload perfect identity theft ID packages to multiple sites that will be hacked.

      3) Bad parents are still going to raise their kids via SnapScreenTubeBloks. They’re just going to let them use their accounts or help make fake ones.

    8. cnbearpaws on

      We need to call American social media what it is, spyware, and stop using it.

      The irony of commenting this statement here…

    9. ANEPICLIE on

      Social media bans:

      1. Don’t work, kids will find a way around it
      2. Negatively impact adults who shouldn’t have to put up with this
      3. Open the door to yet more government surveillance
      4. Open the door for malicious actors to get sensitive identity-related information (as evidenced by numerous leaks/hacks from companies supporting the infrastructure in countries that have attempted to implement this)
      5. Require the development of yet more government bureaucracy to oversee what will be a pointless, ineffective system, instead of spending the tax money on literally anything else.

      How about we start with requiring these companies to submit their algorithms to third party or government audits? At least let researchers assess the myriad ways in which these companies craft these systems to manipulate everyone.

    10. BorealBeats on

      Surprising to me just how many Canadians are eager to surrender and entrust their privacy to the government, as long as it’s „for the children“.

      Maybe they trust the Carney Liberals, but will they also trust the next federal government?

      Rights and freedoms are easy to surrender and difficult to regain.

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