EFF: Stop the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act

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• DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YoU dOnT wAnT tO pRoTeCt ThE kIdS?!

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    we need a Sarcastic Lock that works like Caps Lock, in case se want to write a novel sarcastically, otherwise, too much wotk

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    • captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It was built into Apollo (the Reddit app for IOS). You could type something highlight it and select “sPonGeTExt” from a menu to set random letters uppercase in a block of text.

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It could be a vim plugin.

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      /s is still a thing

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  • PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Won’t somebody think of the children!?

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All the politicians that took multiple trips to Jeffery Epstein’s little playhouse want to protect the children!

  Won’t someone please protect the heckin’ children?!

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I want them to pass an act called "Stop Protecting Kids on Social Media." It can be part of the FUCKTHEMKIDS omnibus.

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• lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It wouldnt hurt the little kids to get off the internet.

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  • cryball@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Absolutely nothing hypocritical about politicians who are willing to sacrifice literally everyone outside of the people in their family wanting to ahem SaVe ThE kIdS. /s

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this one like KOSA meant to target transgender content and drag queens because that material (and specifically that material) is too spicy for America?

  Both the measures suck and are meant to defang the internet since they don’t like the public talking to each other so much, but the the US Senator who sponsored KOSA admitted it was specifically meant to censor the existence of LGBT+ folk, specifically trans folk.

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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