Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15

Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Protect children” bills never protect children

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• sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Both could be true at the same time.

  I’ve got four kids. I’d love nothing more than ban social media for them until 16. It really is poison for developing minds.

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  • fantasyocean@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    There are these crazy things called “parental controls”. You’ve probably never heard of them, but they’re on nearly every single personal computing device. OR, and hear me out. You could just buy a dumb phone for your kids until they’re sixteen, and if they want to take pictures, buy them an inexpensive digital camera. It would be cheaper overall than buying them an iPhone. But no, that’s probably too difficult for you, so everyone else has to give even more of their personal information if they want to use Facebook Marketplace or whatever.

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  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can.

    You just don’t want to either a) put in the legwork to do so, or b) be the ‘bad guy’ to your kids for doing it, so instead you just want the government to do it for you.

    What’s stopping you from setting up pihole and blocking social media sites at home, or turning on parental controls on their phones and blocking the sites and apps?

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t give a flying fuck about your kids or your inability to parent your fucking children.

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  • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree that big tech’s social media is like digital heroin, not only bad for kids.

    But it should be up to the parent to protect their kids, you also don’t let them walk the park alone, why should you let them browse the web un-supervised.

    There are parental tools to restrict your child’s internet access, those should be applied by the parent.

    Not every citizen should be under surveillance by the government under the rouse that they’ll protect your kids, which they won’t.

    The real goal here is to detect people who go against the government and block them. While kids & criminals slip through the cracks by finding sketchy un-surveilled sites and messaging channels.

    And if you really think your government gives a damn about your kids safety, then I urge you to look in the epstein ph/f-iles

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is something nobody discusses out loud is the fact that literally in you internet service where users can post is covered by these laws, they’re not microtargeted at Instagram or anything like that. Also politicians explicitly say things like this is meant to stop transgenderism or this is about Gaza out loud

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  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would you not just want social media to be better regulated by the law? You can’t seriously believe that your children are going to have no access to social media, even with an age ban, unless you intend to lock them in a room and home school them till they’re 18.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s propaganda

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• Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Governments already have access to your data and can easily link you to your social media accounts

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  • SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is a rather defeatist take. It’s also wrong.

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