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I fail to see how ensuring platforms don't algorithmically push negative content on children, or how enforcing better default privacy options for children, is remotely a bad thing. As with most of what the Electronic Farce Foundation publishes today, this article was a word salad of excuses without reasoning.
Also find it pretty ironic and hypocritical that there's a sudden outcry against "censorship" but just a couple years ago, it was apparently a tHrEaT to oUr dEmOcRaCy if anybody expressed any sort of skepticism over the narrative because tRuSt the sCiEnCe.
See, this is the propaganda part. 'Protect the kids!' Of course thats a good sounding thing! Let's put good sounding thing into law and not worry about any possible downsides.
Any legislation presented as being for “protecting children” needs to be immediately met with skepticism.
It’s almost always a cover for egregious government interference in personal life, which sucks since there really is damaging content out there made on purpose… the only thing you can really do is pay more attention to your own kids