Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

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• Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It doesn’t matter where, parents parenting will always have better results than blanket bans.

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  • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    so they shouldn’t do the ban? While we’re at it, perhaps let’s also allow gambling and purchasing alcohol for minors as well ;)

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    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Let 12 year old drive trucks and own firearms. Hell why stop there, let them work if they want to, and if they get sexually abused that’s just because parents weren’t parenting, right? /s

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a difference. If you want to do those things online, you need some way to pay. Those ways involve knowing the person is of age, not perfect but pretty good. That said, I haven’t done online gambling in quite some time so IDK how crypto facts into this. The same can’t be said about browsing the internet in general. I don’t need to provide any info to just go look at things online. I’m not changing that even if my government thinks otherwise.

      Also, those laws came about before the internet. It’s a lot easier to enforce when it’s easy to show someone an ID, and that they’ll forget in the next 5 seconds. Pretty sure people would have a problem if they were forced to keep a list of people who did those things.

      I’m sure you’ll say “but no one is requiring a list to be kept” and that may be true, but how would you know if they are? And that’s the problem. We’ve gotten to a point where there are very few entities we can trust with our data, government included. I don’t trust anyone with it anymore. There have been so many breaches I’d be shocked if anyone who uses the internet hasn’t had their information leaked. I don’t have much choice sometimes though. And it’s not like much of my data isn’t already out there in some form because I was on the internet back in the mid 90s.

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ban life, it carries the risk of death.

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      These kind of snarky responses make me question those more reasonable laws too, if they serve as justification for much worse

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  • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Downvoted, that is not the point, it is not about them. See my comment below.

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Down voting because we agree? Novel. Yes, it’s not about the kids. If it was they’d address it by helping the parents find time and tools to care for their children. Not taking more of everyone else’s time. I agree.

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• autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A blantant lie. Age ban means spying on all adults.

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These bans are terrible.

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• Emi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And how do they know who is under 16 online?

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  • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Great question! Thanks for setting me up to say: by spying on all us adults.

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  • tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let’s store a database of names, ages and a short video of thir face. Sounds like a fantastic idea.

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