Comment on Canada proposes teen social media ban - with workaround for tech firms
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Earlier in the week, Miller said passing a law that addresses online harms was a priority for the Canadian government because “kids are dying”.
This is approximately the opposite of true: speaking from my own experiences having once been a minor, the Internet was pretty much the only thing that gave me some sanity and will to live. If early-to-mid teen me had had only my family and classmates and no online social contacts, I’d have had almost nothing. That’s what you want to take away from current minors… >:(
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I didn’t experience this growing up except for niche hobbies people would make fun of me for in real life or be utterly bored by but this is PRECISELY why this lazy simplistic moralizing about the internet and social media fills me with primal rage.
It is burning so many lifelines for kids, leaving them stranded alone amidst people that hate them for simply being who they are.