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Yet here I am deliberately avoiding the features that Minnesota wants to ban. There is nothing hamfisted and misguided about this, the point is simply to ban th
by manicdee 4y ago
Yet here I am deliberately avoiding the features that Minnesota wants to ban. There is nothing hamfisted and misguided about this, the point is simply to ban the social media equivalent of casinos where the entire point of certain features is to stop you leaving by distracting you from the rest of your life.
- thethirdone 4y agoDo you think HN would be banned for minors according to this law? I think it would, and I don't think HNs algorithm for ranking is abusive or toxic at all.
- pokstad 4y agoI think minors joining social media or forums should require parent permission. There’s too many weirdos out there, and too much self harm from sharing too much information.
- Mezzie 4y agoThis is already allowed for under-13s, but almost no site/service actually allows for that. I imagine this would have similar results with it being a functional ban and the kids just all signing up as '18 year olds'.
- warning26 4y agoThis is a valid point -- HN's algorithm is one of the few that is good at discouraging flamewars without being explicitly chronological.
- zdragnar 4y agoEh, I think credit for that goes to dang and the community. Flamewars definitely start up now and then but moderation stamps many out.
- manicdee 4y agoMinors would end up seeing the same “sort by new” version of the site that everyone who sorts by new instead of hot/rising/popular/etc will see.