Comment on South Australia is proposing a law to ban kids under 14 from social media. How would it work?
Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 months agoWe don’t make ciggys or booze impossible for kids to injest.
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There are laws against both.
Comment on South Australia is proposing a law to ban kids under 14 from social media. How would it work?
Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 months agoWe don’t make ciggys or booze impossible for kids to injest.
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There are laws against both.
GlenRambo@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Yes. And SA is proposing a law against kids using online services.
Yet the conversion is about how the tech companies will handle it. Not about what society in general will do.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It’s the same thing. Social media companies are selling a product to these children which they pay for with their data and attention, just as other companies sell liquor or tobacco to customers for a direct monetary fee. In all of these examples, the government places the onus on the company to not sell the product to a minor (or someone under a certain age).
Do you think there would have been societal shifts on the sale of tobacco and alcohol without government regulation? A government cannot successfully effect widespread societal change on an issue without first clearly identifying that there is a problem through the introduction of new laws.