It's a parenting issue. There may be kids who can use it responsibly, to a specific purpose. It's up to parents to decide and monitor and parent that, and I thi

It's a parenting issue. There may be kids who can use it responsibly, to a specific purpose. It's up to parents to decide and monitor and parent that, and I think it's fine for companies to not take it upon themselves to act for the parents. Part of the goals of parenting is to teach children how to engage with the world responsibly, and for better or worse, social media is now a fixture. In a perfect world, the internet shouldn't be used by anyone under 18 without monitoring by their parents. That doesn't mean we should legislate criminal penalties for parents who fail to "correctly" parent, nor should we penalize companies whose service or product is used poorly or whose use results in a negative outcome. Some things are cultural and social, and government isn't the right tool to fix problems. The cost of governance - loss of privacy and agency, unnecessary intrusion and bureaucracy, mistakes and waste of money and time - far exceeds the cost of letting society figure its shit out. Yeah, there will be tiktok casualties, zombies, people with feed-fried brains. There will even be suicides and tragedies and stupid avoidable deaths from meme challenges. That's better than the alternatives, and it's not ok to put the responsibility for those negative social outcomes on companies when it's a failure of parenting. It's tragic and terrible, but we shouldn't let sympathy for parents allow shifting the blame to social media or AI companies. That being said, there should be guardrails - no algorithm tuning to target children, rapid detection, reporting, expulsion, and lifetime bans for predators on a platform, no advertising to children, and so forth. Require parental consent and monitoring, with weekly activity summaries emailed to parents, or things like that - empowering parents and guardians and giving them tools to make their life easier, that'd be admirable. With platforms like Roblox, they're effectively so large that it's impossible to responsibly moderate, so they get infested with predators and toxic situations. I think it's probably going to require society to limit how big platforms and companies can get - if the service or product or platform cannot be managed responsibly at a certain scale, then they're not allowed to operate at that scale anymore.