Ugh “parents should do better parenting” is such neo lib individualist bullshit
Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks agoParents should be doing a better parenting, rather than relying on the state to do it for them.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
Maybe I shouldn’t have included that in my comment, but my point about trying to ban kids from doing stuff being ineffective still stands.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s hard already when parents are overburdened with trying to pay the bills.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
so you’re in favour of it then? less need for parents to worry about what misinformation and disinformation is being supplied by paid actors on facebook, win/win ?
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No, having parents mailed social media dangers brochures instead would be a better idea.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I don’t disagree, but this law could have been an opportunity to give parents better tools with which to parent.
It is far, far too difficult for any parent today to impose parental controls on their kids’ devices. Parental controls are an afterthought, put in place barely enough to tick the box saying “we have parental controls”, and not effectively doing much of anything. The law could have forced tech companies to do better and make it easy for parents to use effectively.
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What else should people be allowed to do to children just because the parents aren’t “vigilant” enough?
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Hey both of these are covered on the FAQ
proxy to bypass blocked sites was common knowledge
It’s not a technological block, the social media sites will rely on a variety of signals, for example if you sign up for a facebook account in USA, but take a selfie geolocating you in australia and image scan picks up that you might be under 16, you’ll still get pinged for id check
amongst the smarter kids
They are targeting all under 16’s, and this is mentioned as well, even if 10% of kids get around the ban somehow, the fact that 90% don’t removes a huge part of the social in social network
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
even if 10% of kids get around the ban somehow, the fact that 90% don’t removes a huge part of the social in social network
The kids that get around the ban will spread that knowledge to others. That’s what happened when I went to school, and I don’t think it’s any different today.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
good luck to them
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Parents can compete against teams of people whose goal is to make their platform as addictive as possible? Nah, it’s a systemic problem and it won’t be solved by some parents sometimes doing something of limited effectiveness. Nor will it be solved by blanket bans.