Geht das nicht am Kernproblem vorbei? Soziale Medien sind von Natur aus spaltend, unehrlich und machen süchtig. Toll, dass ein Land Kinder davor schützt, aber Big Tech ändert dadurch nichts.
Warum muss sich der Rest der Welt so viel Mühe geben, um Milliarden von Menschen vor einer winzigen Anzahl böser Menschen zu schützen?
Die Leute geben Geld für die Sicherheit ihres Hauses aus, weil sie nicht wissen, wer die Einbrecher sind, aber hier wissen wir genau, mit wem wir es zu tun haben, und davon gibt es auch nicht sehr viele.
In Australien tritt das Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige in Kraft
Australia has banned social media for under-16s & governments from Denmark to Malaysia – and even some states in the US, say they plan similar steps.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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Even before the tech billionaires took over the social media scene, this was a problem. A kid in my high school killed himself over something posted on MySpace.
We’re all aware that social media is bad for a developing brain. Is this a harsh step? Sure. Is it probably the healthiest thing for a child to just be banned from using the platforms? I think so.
Among other things, being able to codify what needs dealing-with in regards to the handful is a challenge.
Another of those things, one that is a problem with the current approach too, is that some things some would mark as to-deal-with, others would mark as a positive effect, and perhaps be correct.
It makes what big tech does irrelevant, they’ve proven themselves unequipped or uninterested in moderation their platforms and we’re tired of dealing with their incompetence so they’re being cut out of the decision making.
Social media will go down in history as killing more(mostly children) people than crack and multiple wars combined.
It’s devastated entire generations.
Social media should be banned for everyone. The world was a much better place before social media existed.
Im honestly shocked it hasn’t been banned for children in more countries yet.
It’s more that parent’s aren’t controlling their children’s access to the internet so someone thoight damage control was a good idea. Sure, parents doing it would be better but I’m not sure how that gets enforced. I’m sure people will find ways around it anyway.
You’re definitely right, a lot of companies ARE missing the core problem, but I also think it’s because they’re opting for the easier fight. A lot of beneficiaries or big tech companies themselves would likely push back hard, and I doubt leaders want that headache. So I guess it’s just easier to skip the fight altogether.
yea. they rather restrict peoples freedoms than daring to limit multinational billion dollar corporations in any way.
Do you have a link for the source that says Danish politicians are takling about this? 😛
They say it is to protect the children, but bullying will still continue. The harm will be physical, not digital, and those who want to, will find ways to stay online, possibly by risky means that pose a greater threat. If they were concerned about the children, they would be enforcing laws that made the tech companies responsible for ensuring their platforms are safe for those using them. Don’t penalize the users just because the tech is too complicated for the old men in power to understand.
This is just a BS excuse to de-anonymize the internet. (Governments HATE not being able to punish your criticisms.)
While I agree with the general thrust of your point here, the weird thing for me about that ban was reading the list of allowed/banned sites. The choice to ban reddit and youtube, but not what’s app or pinterest is just bizarre. It seems like an ineffective and arbitrary list.
Did they ban Bluesky?
I can’t find any news sites saying they included that site in the blocked list.
The issue isn’t ‚currently low risk because only 50k kids use it.‘ The risk is how people shift to something else when something is blocked. The users will always find something else to fill the gap.
Having lower user count is a bad metric for safety.
Just saw the current yougov poll for the same law to be applied in the UK and it is currently 81% agree that there should be the same in the UK.
I can’t remember the last time I saw that high a percentage of people in the UK agree on anything
Tech companies literally design their apps to be as addictive as possible to rise to the top. It has gone passed the MySpace and early Facebook days where it is a social tool where you can keep up with people and friends to a dopamine slot machine.
Let’s ban them for Adults too…
I’d gladly take an enforced break
I’m surprised to see the push back for this. Social media is possibly one of the worst developments of the modern world. I think the harm isn’t even that kids are getting their feeling hurt, but rather that these things have weaponized extreme content in the pursuit of harvesting attention and have created radicalization and political polarization in the process. I think it is a great thing and frankly no one benefits from spending any significant time on social media. Kids are just more sensitive to having their worldview permanently sculpted by it.
The whole point is to connect politically inconvenient posts with real life identity. They are smart, malicious people, who want to introduce invigilation through connecting accounts with real life IDs.