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It wouldnt hurt the little kids to get off the internet.
That's a job for the parents though isn't it? And for early teenagers people seem to forget what positive influence the internet could have on their lives. Eg. many IT workers started fiddling around with stuff when they were quite young.
I'm just glad there was no internet as it is today when I was 13. The internet of the 90s? Good. The internet of the 2020s with algorithms fighting for your attention? Yuck.
Infinite scrolling social media must be horrible on a developing brain and teenage insecurities.
Its like a slot machine now.
I'm employed in tech and a weirdo furry because of the internet. Jury's still out on how that adds up.
The Internet's the only reason I'm still alive
Theyre not learning IT on tik tok. If they want to bypass the government’s countermeasures they still learn IT.
Maybe stop for a second and consider how this bill is meant to act in concert with library book bans and cuts to school curriculum. Conservatives are coordinating bills and policies to cut off access to important knowledge about marginalized communities.
The only way the far-right can build a young political base is if they can keep entire generations ignorant and uneducated, and unfortunately kids in red districts can’t rely on getting the education they need to be informed citizens from schools.
Precisely this. Just like there’s solid research showing the bad effects of social media on kids generally, there’s solid research showing the positive effects of social media in the case of LGBTQI+ youth. This is designed to let oppressively religious families cut off their queer children from “the world” and from the idea that “it gets better.” Kids are gonna die.
To clarify, I 100% think this bill is bad for adults, privacy, and the internet.
However...
Social Media has a documented, well-studied, negative effect on young people's mental health. We really could and should be doing more as a society to prevent young people from using it / pressuring social media platforms to fix the inherently negative issues with social media. This bill isn't the answer, but acting like kids and teens should have free reign of web apps that are known to be bad for them isn't the answer either.
Their parents should fucking parent them then. If my parents didn't want me exposed to something they didn't let me have it. Stop giving your kids mobile devices and letting them loose on the internet and maybe they won't turn out so fucked up.