There will be loopholes and those loopholes will be exploited by children. The intention is good but the solution is the usual “we don’t know what to do so let’s ban it”. There is a rule or law for everything in Denmark.
Maybe instead of banning social media there should be some sort of consensus as to how social media should operate. Get rid of algorithms designed to become addicting or push products harmful to people. Reduce advertisements. Don’t push content that’s from around the world, focus on things immediately connected to someone’s life like posts from friends and family not Rogan and Tate.
Let me guess, we’re I Danish (or when this shit spreads to my country) I would have identify my accounts to the government and or corporations.
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we’ve been too naive. We’ve left children’s digital lives to platforms that never had their wellbeing in mind. We must move from digital captivity to community.”
Powerful words.
Small question: Why are you giving these horrible platforms more leverage over their digital captives instead of just banning them or outlawing the worst parts of their business models?
I vote for you.
Social media is to kids today what cigarettes were to teens last century. Might even be better compared to the Radium marketing blitz that poisoned so many while making a few very rich.
Social media is way worse, and it’s not even close.
Seems to me like the wrong way to address the problem. But I guess it’s easier to ban people with no political voice from a vital tool for social connectivity than it is to hold the large companies hosting those tools accountable for socially-damaging practices.
great way to teach kids to keep secrets, break the law, and access the internet discretely, though.
Yeah, this worries me a lot.
What happens to the queer teenager who has no friends at school who understand them, can’t tell their homophobic parents, but found vital and life-saving connections online.
I recognize that social media can be a tool for harm, but it can also be a tool for a lot of good. We should be working to teach teens to engage with online spaces in a way that’s healthy, not just shutting off access altogether.
…and they still refuse to properly educate themselves, parents, students, and people overall about how to remain safe online.
As usual, here are my (extremely) unpopular opinions: 1: This ban is made to extend to smartphones for children overall, allowing some abuse situations to be carried out without risk. Furthermore, this might (later) extend to some workers, women overall, then lower “castes” and classes. 2: This is another way for Chat Control to also be implemented later, by setting the roots for such.
Oh, another thing: using age as a metric is darn stupid — aren’t some of the worst leaders actually quite… elderly?
I think its simpler than that, its not about banning children its about identifying everyone else
Denmark following Australia’s lead, who are following the UKs version.
The fact that these massive companies that have way too much sway over politicians already are only vaguely, fighting this, concerns me. Feels like this is more about feeding everyone into the facial recognition databases, with the added bonus of censorship
I think kids shouldn’t have smart phones at all. Banning from social media is the wrong way to handle it. Parent’s need to be held accountable for allowing their kids to have too much phone time. It rots the brain. There are way too many kids that can’t read, do basic math, or do anything by themselves without the help of AI. It’s ridiculous.
Smart phones are by them self fine. It’s no different then when we were kids with a gameboy and a cheap prepaid flip phone
Like what’s actually fucking the problem with smart phones? It’s a camera phone and Gameboy all in one. There’s nothing inherently problematic with that
Every problem people always bitch about are various apps and companies and have absolutely fucking shit and all to do inherently with the phone it self.
Proper parenting, and bitch slapping the dipshits companies shoving additive and invasive software at kids is the solution.
Not getting rid of a useful tool that kids should learn to properly utilize and one of the single largest tools of safety for kids.
She is right. I don’t use a smartphone anymore. I now use a dumbphone. It helps me focus and reduce stress. Turns out you don’t need the internet with you 24/7. If someone really needs me, he can call.
You could just not have Internet access on your phone… A smart phone is more then just the internet. It’s a camera, a Gameboy, an mp3 player, and other useful tools.
Feels like giving up all the usefulness just because it has internet access might be the best example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
This isnt about protecting kids, its about age verifying and de-anonymising everyone. Australia has already gone down this road, dont fall for the trap.
