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UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s

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Re: UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s

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Post by ThalesX »

hatefulmoron wrote: post #24
budududuroiu wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a parent, I completely agree. What's stopping you from doing this so far? Handing a child a smartphone is a decision parents can make, withholding access to a smartphone is also a decision parents can make.

I'm not in favor of these social media bans, but I would think the benefit here is that without the ban your child will be in the "real world" while everybody else's is on social media. This would make the "real world" socialization benefits more difficult.

I want my child to go out, but first I need to force every other child to go out. Maybe that's why children are not out? Because parents wait for all the other children to go out?

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Post by stuaxo »

aledevv wrote: post #7

> “Children will be given back their childhoods,” As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social media. But above all, we need to give children back the right to experience a true, real childhood, made up of true friends, fresh air, friendships, and real relationships!

This could start if we became less worried about kids being kidnapped or whatever and actually let them out.

Kids have less freedom than ever.

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Post by wallaBBB »

christkv wrote: post #20
aledevv wrote: post #7

> “Children will be given back their childhoods,” As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social media. But above all, we need to give children back the right to experience a true, real childhood, made up of true friends, fresh air, friendships, and real relationships!

Have you not discovered piehole or child controls? My kids stuff is completely locked down it was not hard. I don't need the state to be involved.

Those are far from easy do handle for majority of parents.

Banks keeps sending me warnings about some new ‘Nigerian prince’ level scams. They wouldn’t be doing it if grownups weren’t falling for them.

General population doesn’t want to setup piholes.

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Post by dizzy3gg »

christkv wrote: post #20
aledevv wrote: post #7

> “Children will be given back their childhoods,” As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social media. But above all, we need to give children back the right to experience a true, real childhood, made up of true friends, fresh air, friendships, and real relationships!

Have you not discovered piehole or child controls? My kids stuff is completely locked down it was not hard. I don't need the state to be involved.

Locked down to what though? Bike rides and tag? I TRY to limit my child to 30 mins a day, but when she’s older there is gonna be peers that I will battling against.

Re: UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s

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Post by n4r9 »

dryarzeg wrote: post #25
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the UK; BlueSky already requires age verification for DMs, which I can no longer use.

Wow. Sorry to say that, but a few more steps in that direction from UK government - like blocking "non-compliant" platforms and/or banning VPN services and blocking VPN protocols entirely - and you will have a Western Russia here in terms of censorship. Maybe even worse... I'm feeling sorry for you; no irony or sarcasm intended, honestly.

How does it benefit the UK government to block social media for children?

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Post by [deleted] »

aledevv wrote: post #7

> “Children will be given back their childhoods,” As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social media. But above all, we need to give children back the right to experience a true, real childhood, made up of true friends, fresh air, friendships, and real relationships!

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Post by n4r9 »

budududuroiu wrote: post #19
cromka wrote: post #12

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It's also a huge win for children's future and cognition. Both of these things can be true. We need to figure out how to navigate this new reality and no action was getting really dangerous.

Parents have the choice of handing smartphones to their children. If cognition and future is that important, surely a parent wouldn't wait for government intervention

Yes, and that choice is far less successful if their children's friends all have smartphones already.

Re: UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s

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Post by yanis_t »

I grown up in the 1990s, so as a teen I had access to the wild west of the decentralized internet in all its scary glory. It was pretty cool.

But nowadays as a parent I see, instagram, tiktok are much more scarier for the damage they make psychologically and mentally to our kids. And with the AI slop it's only going to go downhill. So yes, it's a great decision, and other countries should follow the lead.

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