Seems like something easy to fix considering the massive damage social media has been doing
Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
Submitted 7 hours ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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Akh@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Advocacy group Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) says social media and the internet is “often a lifeline for young people with disability, providing one of the few truly accessible ways to build connections and find community”.
In a submission to the Senate inquiry around the laws, CYDA said social media was: “a place where young people can choose how they want to represent themselves and their disability and learn from others going through similar things”.
“It provides an avenue to experiment and find new opportunities and can help lessen the sting of loneliness,” the submission said. “Cutting off that access ignores the lived reality of thousands and risks isolating disabled youth from their peer networks and broader society.”
You sure about that buddy? Confident enough to maim the fragile social networks that young people living in hostile environments in favor of another solution you haven’t even come up with yet?
Leave this place if this is how you see social media, by your own viewpoint digital communities aren’t good for people so why are you here?
Akh@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Children. Tons of studies show that social media for people under 25 does developmental harm to the brain because the part that hits the brakes does not develop then. Instead, for teens it is a dopamine factory with doom scroll
Korkki@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
The real issue is that most social media is for-profit addiction machine breeding more and more anti-social behavior, not that kids have access to it. This is just a another example that liberals are incapable of seeing any ill in rampant capitalism or much less intervene in it’s mechanism for the common good. Everything is framed around profit seeking bringing out the greatest good and individuals choice. They are very at a loss when having to to do any systemic analysis why social-media has ill effects on social fabric. The best they can come up is that kids are not yet fully formed adults able to do the right choice, so they must be guided.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Yeah. I’m pretty sure for profit social media isn’t good for anyone. Adults shouldn’t use it either. But we decided long ago that you can’t stop adults from drinking or smoking weed, so adults are just mature enough to handle it or approach lies and manipulation with more skepticism, but I look around and see it’s not true.
I feel like at least things like Lemmy and Mastodon are much easier to filter or walk away from when you aren’t in the right emotional space.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 hours ago
This whole article seems fishy.
While some young people were exposed to harmful content and bullying online, for Indy, social media was always a safe space. If she ever came across anything that felt unsafe, she says, she would ask her parents or sisters about it.
If thats the case why dont her parents just use their I’d to verify an account for her? Also it only blocked a few platforms and there are still plenty of ways to communicate with friends.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Who could have possibly guessed that cutting kids off from means of communication would have negative consequences?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Seeing as how the linked article is an editorial, I took a look at the link from the Guardian.
And it’s all people saying how it’s more difficult to talk to their friends now. But how? You still have a phone that dials numbers. Your parents, presumably, have the ability to access social media and obtain any numbers you need.
The last line reiterates how, while this is ultimately a parental failing, the parental failing has been so astronomical and the harm to kids’ cognitive abilities and mental stability so profound that regulation is essential.
I look forward to the day when social media use is banned globally for all underage people, and if you need more information as to why, go speak to any schoolteacher in America who can’t get their students to pay attention for more than 60 seconds, or who can’t retain information that is literally written on the board in front of them.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Why are you here then?
How the hell are you going to ban all underage people from social media and who gets the authority to decide the details of that?
You are being intellectually lazy and it shows.
rimu@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Hold up, hold up.
Here are plenty of studies - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=attention+span+social+media&btnG=
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Ok so let’s use that logic of who gets the authority to decide.
As a child would it be ok for you to watch porn all day? I mean what’s stopping you? The government with their R, MA, NR ratings? Why not just let children smoke? Who has the authority to question what we do with our bodies? We should be selling smokes and alcohol to minors cause why listen to anything the professionals and government says?
Why are you following those rules? That’s just being intellectually lazy since others are telling you what to do.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
For starters, requiring ID verification. That is something that is very obviously easy for an adult to provide and for a child not to. At the end of the day, that will be for each individual country to decide.
Though I imagine over the long-term there will be more nuanced solutions.
The problem of people losing their cognitive abilities is far more consequential than a small group of people having a more difficult time because they don’t socialize easily. I’m just looking at the bigger issue here.