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This is awesome. I have been telling that social media is like smoking. When cigarettes came, even doctors were advertising the benefits of cigarettes. Now we k
by nutanc 2y ago
This is awesome. I have been telling that social media is like smoking. When cigarettes came, even doctors were advertising the benefits of cigarettes. Now we know the harmful effects. Same is the case with social media. We just dont know they harmful effects completely yet.
Ban this. I am addicted and can't stop. Or put a warning on social media apps like they do on cigarette packets. Using this app maybe harmful for your mental health.
- r3d 2y ago[flagged]
- jaimex2 2y ago[flagged]
- pixxel 2y agoWeak minds love government intervention over parental responsibility. It’s awesome! Get your IDs out, everyone, think of the children. JFC.
- Johanx64 2y agoHere's the reality: some significant % of parents will have zero parental responsibility and are ill suited to be parents. This is just a fact. How to solve this? 1. Only allow suitable responsible people to be parents. Would you like this? This would be highly unpopular and wouldn't happen. 2. Or alternatively you enforce uniform rules across all population of minors, thus children without functional parents have limitations and protections in place as if they had parents with resposibility. The second option is simply more palatable and feasible to be implemented.
- johnny22 2y agothe problem isn't what it means to the kids, but what it means to us! It'd mean we'd need to be ID'd. We don't want that.
- Johanx64 2y agoOh, I agree with you in regards for the ID requirements. That is not a solution (especially for social networks that are not self identifying like FB)
- hello_moto 2y agoThen parents all over the world have failed. Even the successful ones have limited shelf life before the kids get isolated from the friends and losing out the actual real world Social Life. The tone of your response signals that you're definitely Americans. Americans have a different culture and perspective when it comes to Freedom, Government intervention given your history. That doesn't mean your perspective fits in other countries.
- intended 2y agoAbsolutely, and if people can’t be good parents they shouldn’t be. Maybe people should be given permission to have kids. Then the only people who have kids are the ones who can carry that responsibility. So many parents today dont have the education, time or knowledge to truly understand what their kids are doing. Just imagine, we need to curtail our freedoms, so that these weak parents can not screw up their kids because of their inability to adapt to the world. /s PS: for what it’s worth, I doubt this bill will pass. Creating verifiable IDs for children is a failed dream, and cannot be achieved; even the most draconian interventions will have errors.
- johnisgood 2y agoCould not agree more.
- peutetre 2y agoThey'll pick the biggest ones. They won't block them. It'll be up to the platforms themselves to prevent access to children under 16.
- jaimex2 2y agoGreat, then all the kids will end up at 4chan.
- bowsamic 2y agoThis place is no better
- cynicalsecurity 2y agoThis is an attack on freedom.
- _Algernon_ 2y agoI don't know what to tell you... Minors are supposed to lack freedom compared to adults in a society.
- hello_moto 2y agoLet kids have guns, can drink booze, and smoke too while we're at it?
- bowsamic 2y agoYes and rightly so
- dkdbejwi383 2y agoI mean you could make an argument that outlawing murder is also an attack on freedom. That doesn't mean it isn't a silly argument however.
- lm28469 2y agoTo be fair every single law in the world is an attack on freedom if you're a 5 IQ freedom absolutist. You can't drive a car without headlights, you can't drive a car without seatbelts, you can't kill your neighbours if he fucks your wife, you can't open a shop selling BBQ dog ribs... life is so unfair =(
- amelius 2y agoNo we need to kill the advertisement based monetization model, so there is no incentive to produce addictive content.
- Jyaif 2y agoIf mastodon was used by teens, it would have all the same problems. Advertisment is not the problem here.
- amelius 2y agoRight now this is perhaps true, because mastodon has to compete with commercial social media.
- kalaksi 2y agoMastodon doesn't have the incentive to try to spy on everybody and try to get everybody hooked by any means necessary.
- pxoe 2y agois that why they're trying to implement better suggestions and discovery algorithms (https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/) just to get people to stick on their website even a little bit cause otherwise it's just kinda dead
- protocolture 2y agoMasto has no social graph. Its just like IRC and PHP forums that many of us here used as teens.
- childintime 2y agoWe all want this regardless. Yet we don't. We also want innovation, and that means we have to vote by avoiding the amount of shit coming down the pipe. So for starters I use an ad-blocker. But platforms will still strangle free speech because of their business model acting out. I think for starters we should have competition, therefore mandate federation between platforms. No big winner-takes-all tech monopolies. But the USA doesn't want to give up the profit, nor the power that comes with it, to own the world. Perhaps as an example, Google performs an auction in the milliseconds before serving up ads. So it's possible. In the end platforms will integrate an AI buddy that will come to know us even better, and that represents our ways. Of course we'll want that, but please, federate.
- johnisgood 2y agoYou can put a warning everywhere, because everything or anything may be harmful to your mental health. sighs "This is why we can't have nice things".
- nutanc 2y agoYou are right. The wording was wrong. It should have been, "The usage of this app will be harmful for your mental health".
- johnisgood 2y agoI do not disagree with that.
- maxehmookau 2y agoHard agree. It's our generation's smoking. Zuckerberg's recent PR glow-up is just this generation's Marlboro man. An acceptable face on something much more sinister.