Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 day agoYou 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?
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Most parents either don’t know how to do that, or don’t care enough to stop their kids from using social media, despite how harmful it is for society as a whole, and especially children. Also I know from experience that parental controls can easily be bypassed by a dedicated child. Also since all their friends are on social media, a child can credibly argue that they need to use it to maintain their social life, if social media is banned for under 16’s, then children would have to communicate with normal chat apps.
A propely implemented (as in ZKP verification that gives no information to the service other than the age category) is a good thing in my opinion, because at some point some systemic problems are better served by systemic solutions.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
Cite sources, I think you’re lying to me
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Which part do you think I’m lying about?