Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
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Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#2Great. About 10 years too late but better than nothing. Hope it becomes the global norm.
Once that’s done we should ban the over the 65+.
Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#3So... de-facto mass deanonymisation of all Spanish social media users? I see a lot of supporters of these policies either not acknowledge that you can't identify under-16yo without identifying over-16yos.
Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#4I worry that these measures (if they actually work, which is unlikely) will isolate people who struggle with real-life interactions. I remember reading somewhere that autistic people tend to find community in online spaces, and it seems like a lot of people gain their tech skills that way, including me. So indiscriminately banning young people from these spaces will prevent them from finding community and people like them
Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#5Great. About 10 years too late but better than nothing. Hope it becomes the global norm. Once that’s done we should ban the over the 65+.
Yeah. We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a disinformation sharer and slop consumer.
Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#6Great. About 10 years too late but better than nothing. Hope it becomes the global norm. Once that’s done we should ban the over the 65+.
Yeah. We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a disinformation sharer and slop consumer.
Maybe we can also introduce an informedness test for voters while we're at it.
Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#7Governments everywhere are following suit.
Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#8So... de-facto mass deanonymisation of all Spanish social media users? I see a lot of supporters of these policies either not acknowledge that you can't identify under-16yo without identifying over-16yos.
> So... de-facto mass deanonymisation of all Spanish social media users?
So all Spanish social media users are currently anonymous? I do not think so.
Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#9I worry that these measures (if they actually work, which is unlikely) will isolate people who struggle with real-life interactions. I remember reading somewhere that autistic people tend to find community in online spaces, and it seems like a lot of people gain their tech skills that way, including me. So indiscriminately banning young people from these spaces will prevent them from finding community and people like…
I guess it depends on which spaces they're banned from. Before Facebook, online communities were bulletin boards and chat rooms. They weren't hyper-addictive social media platforms designed to suck as much attention as possible; they were genuine places of connection.
My hope is that children being banned from the mega platforms would lead to a growth in less harmful online communities for folks who can benefit from it. But I don't know.
Re: Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
#10This is really globally coordinated, isn't it? I'm just not sure why now and not previously. Is it just that Twitter went over the toxicity threshold that everyone noticed?