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Nah. USA is by letting social media companies propagate fascist ideaology
Wow, Europe is diving deep into authoritarianism.
Denmark has every right to protect their kids from becoming the property of US tech companies. And if this means they end up never joining Facebook/ X, etc, then it is a victory against the MAGA & fascist attitudes that those companies spread. People should not be so concerned when a state takes action against companies. When the US broke up Standard Oil it did everyone a whole heap of good. If other countries follow suit with a social media ban for under-15s I think it could be similarly transformative.
Yes, it potentially creates challenges around privacy, but for a law like this to have its intended effect doesn't entirely depend as much on age verification as people think.
The thing with a law is that its transformative effect works over a long period of time. For example, on the day when this takes effect, a heap of kids will still find a way to use these social media sites. But in a couple of years, kids won't want to, because their friends are not on there. This happens, because a few years, and perhaps a few test cases later, society as a whole deems it wrong and illegal for a kid to be on social media.
15 years olds are smart enough to use social media safely in their own free time, we need better parenting.
bruh fully grown adults aren't smart enough to use social media safely
Yeah, parents can totally keep up against corporations that employee dozens or hundreds of people to push the exact opposite /s
They aren't though, they are easily manipulated, and the effects of kids spending time alone on "social" Media is having a lasting effect with depression, lack of real interaction with the world, even showing up as lack of problem solving learning situations. Lack of outdoor activity (due to psychologic developed apps that maintain engagment) is showing up as lack of spatial body awareness. The brain changes by actual physical activity and real world interactions, and they find the brain is no longer being optimized. Its just bad all around until the brain is properly formed.
I'm no maths genius, but this wouldn't stop 15 year olds. Just those under 15.
I think it's perfectly normal to restrict things from kids and young teens that may be damaging. The same is done for other types of media like tv, movies, music etc.
Social media is more insidious in that, instead of art trying to inspire emotions, it is weaponising our emotions and addiction against us. Many adults can't handle it, but they can make their own mind up kids, we should protect as they can't make an informed decision.
No. 15yos are not smart enough to get pregnant, apply for a mortgage, drive, submit taxes, and represent themselves in courts. Because social media are corporations’ biggest network effect exploiter, and it addicts folks more perversely than some plant’s powder.
Social media is not the internet. And lemmy still requires guardian supervision. If my kids need internet, it’ll be for things they need, and maybe a few pleasantries. But not corporate manipulation.
As an anarchist, I wish it would go further, and only 21+years olds with OPSEC training could go on the internet.
One of the few instances I agree with Mette Frederiksen on this issue.
Social media is worse than heroin addiction.
How Denmark will implement the law remains to be seen.
Social media isn't the school's website, or the community news.