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Its crazy how the AusGov has just tried to turn this into some kind of nationalistic celebration. Passing laws isolating children isnt to be celebrated by light
by protocolture 11mo ago
Its crazy how the AusGov has just tried to turn this into some kind of nationalistic celebration. Passing laws isolating children isnt to be celebrated by lighting up national monuments.
- batiudrami 11mo agoIsolating children? They’re schoolchildren! They see their peers at school every day.
- deadbolt 11mo agoIsolated from ads sold by the social media companies lol
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- protocolture 11mo agoWe already have reports about disabled kids experiencing suicidal ideation due to losing their only non family social connections. Not to mention that Australias youth are quite politically engaged, we have a news network entirely run by teenagers that just had their service gutted.
- emulatedmedia 11mo agoIsolating children from what? If anything, this will make they spend more time with their friends and family
- squigz 11mo agoWhat about the kids who are bullied and isolated at school? What about those who have an abusive family?
- deadbolt 11mo agoWhat about the kids who are bullied on social media?
- squigz 11mo agoOne of the good things about the Internet is that you can leave such sites and find people who don't do that. Most kids don't really have such a choice when it comes to school or their family.
- chalupa-supreme 11mo agoOnline abuse works the exact same way. Most kids don’t choose to be abused online either.
- squigz 11mo agoYes. What I'm saying is that people can choose to leave online spaces that are abusive, as opposed to abuse at school or home, which are much harder (usually impossible) for children to escape.
- rjdj377dhabsn 11mo agoThey should simply stop using social media. Why ban everyone else?
- awillowingmind 11mo agoAh yes brilliant. Instead of trying to address these issues at their source let’s just let kids form immaterial connections online and guarantee they never learn how to form any sort of in person communication skills!
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- nxor 11mo agoAbsolutely second this, and I am part of the younger generation. Technology is isolating. Social media feeds superficial relationships. The anxiety it creates is so worrying.
- protocolture 11mo ago>Isolating children from what? We already have reports of disabled kids experiencing suicidal ideation as they are cut off from their only non familial social experience.
- lm28469 11mo agoDo you have kids ? Do you see kids in your day to day life ? I do, every day, and even <10 years old already have permanent neck damage from scrolling as soon as they haves 5 seconds of free time. I see groups of friends walking back from schools, they're side by side, scrolling on their phone, not talking, not even looking in front of them. I walk by 3 schools multiple times every single day and that's all I see as soon as they're outside of the playground (because they're not allowed while inside). Locking up kids inside social media echo chambers is much more isolation than kicking them out of them imho
- wahnfrieden 11mo agoThey already excluded many popular and addictive services that are used for grooming This will enhance surveillance and state control of content, but not address the problems you’ve mentioned
- protocolture 11mo agoI do have a son. I plan to tell my kiddo not to engage with those platforms and set boundaries. I dont plan to force every kid in every scenario into the same pattern. >Locking up kids inside social media echo chambers is much more isolation than kicking them out of them imho "Locking" Why not instead ban the social graph, or certain engagement techniques. Theres a whole other arm here, where the AusGov has pulled back entirely from promised gambling restrictions. Its easy to see a path where dark patterns in both industries are outlawed instead of banning half. Not to mention that 4chan and youtube are unaffected, so I doubt those kids with the broken backs or whatever are going to be "free".