Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media

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DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You don’t know why it would be good to stop exploiting children for clicks and ad revenue? Do you think a 12 yo can consent to live streaming their life for the whole world to watch?

The question is not whether you can find one kind of video/streaming that is exploitative but whether all of them are. Is it exploitative to share video from a spelling bee competition? Is it exploitative to share a school theater video? If not, ban the things that are.

As for whether to give phones to children, that is a parents decision. As for the research, it is the same as above. Clearly these issues did not exist with early smartphones. So it’s not the phones, it something on them. My money is on social media and the “idle” games. Parents have the option to prevent installation of those.

You don’t ban pipes, because they can be used to make pipe-bombs. You ban making pipe-bombes. Your proposals are so broad they would ban way too many things that are ok.

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