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I believe every government disenfranchises young people because they are young. Its not about intelligence. Else a whole lot of over-age-of-majority wouldn't p

I believe every government disenfranchises young people because they are young. Its not about intelligence. Else a whole lot of over-age-of-majority wouldn't pass either. Theres also no old-age cutoff, when their mental faculties significantly decline. Yeah, the voting majority keeps 'under age' from voting. But at least in the USA, we have children as young as 11 being tried as adults but with none of the benefits.

Barbing 6mo ago
You’re right that it shouldn’t be about intelligence! Overall definitely unfair. — After posting, I questioned whether political speech is special. Like should fifteen-year-olds who love film be able to make videos about them and get lots of followers… but I couldn’t be thought police. So maybe- The platform just has to be designed non-addictively. Is this accurate?: In reality, Facebook was so powerful the regulators could never make them stop at any turn. Now that they finally got sued big time, we finally educated ourselves enough as constituents to raise enough of a stink to trigger straight up bans. (educated ourselves, or politicians legislate based how bad headlines are, or it was so egregious it genuinely ticked them off… …)
zelphirkalt 6mo ago
Maybe it should be about intelligence. All kinds of people destroy ecosystem after ecosystem, simply by acting in stupid ways and thereby creating tons of bad incentives for businesses, who will stop at nothing to maximize their profits, zero ethics. The whole system is rigged up to trend towards supporting stupid behavior and attracting more of that, simply because there are so many people doing stupid things. Engagement and attention economy, no matter how stupid or rotten.