Comment on Five young teens on life under Australia’s social media ban: ‘It’s not a big deal any more’

Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s how the government eliminates the basic rights. Step by step. Starting with small things. Almost always with “defend children” slogans

  I always wondered why they didn’t let kids have sex, smoke cigarettes, drive cars, drink alcohol forced them to go to school etc. /s

  Its not like there isnt endless amounts of research showing social medias toxicity. Better to ban it outright but here we are.

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• WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s like when the government took slot machines from kids, then cigarettes, then alcohol… A never ending erosion of rights that serves no legitimate purpose.

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  • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, keep equaling cigarettes to social media. That’s very wise.

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    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was mostly teasing. I do believe, as you seem to, that rights are eroded from the edges and that is one reason it is important to protect activities we disagree with. 'Protect the kids" is often used to deny rights to adults but kids are legitimately protected by the laws of society from a lot of predatory things. The social media ban doesn’t stop adults from doing anything or make them do anything so it doesn’t fit the case for sneaky control like cisa or gun control in the US or chat control in the EU. I don’t think advertisers should be able to advertise directly to children. Teams of human psychology and behavior experts crafting the most addictive product available and being able to constantly live A/B test their newest ideas is bad for kids. It’s bad for adults too but to each their own.

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      • freedickpics@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The social media ban doesn’t stop adults from doing anything or make them do anything

        Besides have to submit ID documents or a scan of their faces to companies that routinely sell or leak that data… Why do supporters of this law always just ignore that part?

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• dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Analyze Russia’s today: they started “defending” kids ~10 years ago. Look where they are now. You will be there soon too.

  That’s both the funniest and stupidest thing I’ve read all week, thanks for the sad laugh.

  Loosely speaking, Russia has been “where they are now” since the failure of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union some 30+ years ago. None of that was done under the guise of “defending kids”.

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• Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL social media access is a basic right.

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