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France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

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Re: France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

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Post by DarkWiiPlayer »

yieldcrv wrote: post #35
voidfunc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Social media is the rock amd roll of its time. Every generation has to have a panic about the children.

I consider it more like an opium crisis of the time Where the whole population is addicted and governors risk their political career to ban the addiction, and then get their territory invaded by the corporations they kicked out who have returned with a foreign military and mercenary army, to push the addiction back on the populace

Cyberpunk meets opium wars...

Actually sounds like a not so bad setting for a book/game/movie ngl; sure sounds like a garbage setting for a world to actually live in.

Re: France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

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Post by peyton »

mungoman2 wrote: post #32
mary-ext wrote: post #14

I've noticed that there's a decent amount of people who had benefitted having access to computer and internet really early on that seemed to be pro on banning teen access to social media, is there a reason why? the social media of today don't seem all that much different from the internet forums of back in the day if algorithmic amplification is the reason then I'm not sure why social media as a whole has to be banne…

Imo the difference is enormous between social media and forums. Infinite feeds are designed to game you for attention, whereas the forums of yore were there to facilitate discussions. I'm sure some forums would also have liked to game you if they could, but they didn't have the scale to always have something juicy to serve up. To me it's super uncomfortable to expose my kids to a product designed by large teams with…

The bodybuilding.com forums always had something juicy to serve up. Today’s social media really isn’t much different.

I find it uncomfortable for the government to yoink any citizen’s access to discussion platforms. I would be more comfortable with other means.

Re: France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

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mungoman2 wrote: post #32
mary-ext wrote: post #14

I've noticed that there's a decent amount of people who had benefitted having access to computer and internet really early on that seemed to be pro on banning teen access to social media, is there a reason why? the social media of today don't seem all that much different from the internet forums of back in the day if algorithmic amplification is the reason then I'm not sure why social media as a whole has to be banne…

Imo the difference is enormous between social media and forums. Infinite feeds are designed to game you for attention, whereas the forums of yore were there to facilitate discussions. I'm sure some forums would also have liked to game you if they could, but they didn't have the scale to always have something juicy to serve up. To me it's super uncomfortable to expose my kids to a product designed by large teams with…

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Re: France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

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Post by presmith09 »

You can't understand this law if you don't understand the french mindset. French people live with the republic state in mind, they will shout "this is forbidden!" for whatever reason. They can't make a statement by their own, they need to use the law as a medium to express their feelings, their frustrations, to take a decision.

That's why every single part of life needs to be written in law books, otherwise french people are lost. They built USSR in their own mind. As parents don't have the guts to say no to their children, they need the politicians to raise their kids. And french politicians think they are ruling the laws of physics (or medecine) with speeches and printed papers. Everybody is happy.

Re: France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

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Post by thrance »

timpera wrote: post #22

Please note that the Conseil d'État, the highest French court for administrative matters, has issued a very skeptical opinion on this bill, saying that only the EU can impose new obligations onto digital platforms. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/01/27/french-l... > The amended and adopted text now states that "access to an online social network service provided by an online platform is prohibited for m…

Except the Conseil d'État is not a supreme court, so their opinion on the subject is irrelevant.

Re: France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

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Post by thrance »

johnisgood wrote: post #52
terespuwash wrote: post #39

What a weird idea to isolate teens from a platform instead of regulating it. It’s like if children were forbidden to drink a soda at a bar because they also sell alcohol. Enforcing platform’s safety and educating users (young and old) would be much better to help everyone be healthy in a connected world.

We have not learnt anything from the war on drugs, even though many people compare social media to drugs.

That comparison is misguided. You can stop social media abruptly and not feel any withdrawal.

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Post by bandrami »

johnisgood wrote: post #56
bandrami wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the kind of soft-hearted laissez-faire attitude that got us where we are today

Yeah we need dictatorship with a dictator that opposes all your views. /s

We need to recognize that deliberately engineered psyops are deliberately engineered psyops

Re: France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

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Post by logicchains »

bandrami wrote: post #17

It's a good start. Ban it for all under 30s and over 60s.

Nepal tried to ban social media to keep the youth from organizing, and the youth rose up and burned the government buildings and politicans' homes down. I'd like to see you try.

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Post by gjadi »

johnisgood wrote: post #52
terespuwash wrote: post #39

What a weird idea to isolate teens from a platform instead of regulating it. It’s like if children were forbidden to drink a soda at a bar because they also sell alcohol. Enforcing platform’s safety and educating users (young and old) would be much better to help everyone be healthy in a connected world.

We have not learnt anything from the war on drugs, even though many people compare social media to drugs.

It's much easier to forbid something to a subset of the population than to the population at large.
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