Jesus, this idea that ‘parents need to take responsibility’. Social Media companies spend billions to tune their products to be as addictive and consuming as it is possible to be. Children have undeveloped brains which are particularly susceptible to social media influences. It’s like saying we should have heroine and cocain freely available to all and ‘parents need to take responsibility’ if they don’t want their kids to be addicts!
Agreed. But you can do both. No amount of regulation of algorithms is going to prevent the developmental harm that does to developing minds (not that I have any evidence for that).
Reddit is actually doing the right thing for once? WTF.
The government needs to support parents instead of censoring the internet.
Don’t know why this is getting downvoted.
If it was actually about protecting children, they’d invest in better education and guidelines.
Mass ID demands and fines is lazy and prone to data breaches. Not to mention destroying anonymity.
The neoliberal propaganda runs deep. The Labour Party can do no wrong!
Jesus, this idea that ‘parents need to take responsibility’. Social Media companies spend billions to tune their products to be as addictive and consuming as it is possible to be. Children have undeveloped brains which are particularly susceptible to social media influences. It’s like saying we should have heroine and cocain freely available to all and ‘parents need to take responsibility’ if they don’t want their kids to be addicts!
The government should uproot the addictive algorithms instead by regulating Meta, YouTube and X.
Agreed. But you can do both. No amount of regulation of algorithms is going to prevent the developmental harm that does to developing minds (not that I have any evidence for that).