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Growing list of countries move to ban social media for children

• abc42 3mo ago
  Interesting to see in 10-20 years if this will have a significant impact for the mental well-being and intelligence of young adults. I'm assuming it will be pretty obvious.
  • nephihaha 3mo ago
    It's being done to push digital ID, not to get children off their screens, since there are plenty of other things they can stare at on screen.
    • inigyou 3mo ago
      ¿Por qué no los dos?
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• nephihaha 3mo ago
  What a coincidence that they chose to do it around the same time they're all pushing digital ID (independently of each other, of course.)
• euroderf 3mo ago
  I would think that a _total_ ban on devices _during school hours_ would hit the 80/20 mark of preventing psychological harm to kids, without the invasiveness of digital ID. Idiot parents that say "omg what if i have to contact my kid during classes" can blow it out their collective *sses - it is they being invasive and harmful.
• like_any_other 3mo ago
  "Growing list of countries move to require ID for the modern public square, media launders this as a restriction on children and social media companies (despite those same companies lobbying for it [1])." [1] https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-beh...
  • inigyou 3mo ago
    Do you include California in that?