Comment on EFF: Stop the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act

lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cryball@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a job for the parents though isn’t it? And for early teenagers people seem to forget what positive influence the internet could have on their lives. Eg. many IT workers started fiddling around with stuff when they were quite young.

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  • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just glad there was no internet as it is today when I was 13. The internet of the 90s? Good. The internet of the 2020s with algorithms fighting for your attention? Yuck.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Infinite scrolling social media must be horrible on a developing brain and teenage insecurities.

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    • lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its like a slot machine now.

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  • Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Internet's the only reason I'm still alive

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m employed in tech and a weirdo furry because of the internet. Jury’s still out on how that adds up.

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  • lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Theyre not learning IT on tik tok. If they want to bypass the government’s countermeasures they still learn IT.

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• kiiada@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe stop for a second and consider how this bill is meant to act in concert with library book bans and changes to school curriculum. Conservatives are coordinating bills and policies to cut off access to important knowledge about marginalized communities.

  The only way the far-right can build a young political base is if they can keep entire generations ignorant and uneducated, and unfortunately kids in red districts can’t rely on getting the education they need to be informed citizens from schools.

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• MrLuemasG@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To clarify, I 100% think this bill is bad for adults, privacy, and the internet.

  However…

  “The end result of this law would likely be that a huge number of young people—particularly the most vulnerable—would lose access to social media platforms, which can play a critical role for young people in accessing resources and support in a wide variety of circumstances”

  Social Media has a documented, well-studied, negative effect on young people’s mental health. We really could and should be doing more as a society to prevent young people from using it / pressuring social media platforms to fix the inherently negative issues with social media. This bill isn’t the answer, but acting like kids and teens should have free reign of web apps that are known to be bad for them isn’t the answer either.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their parents should fucking parent them then. If my parents didn’t want me exposed to something they didn’t let me have it. Stop giving your kids mobile devices and letting them loose on the internet and maybe they won’t turn out so fucked up.

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