The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
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Re: The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
#2Honestly I would love to see a ban on social media in general, for all ages (or more specifically, content that's algorithmically feed and reliant on ads/engagement). Take out Tinder and gambling while you're at it.
EFF are way off base here - this isn't "free as in free speech" but "free as in giant corporations are free to fuck people up the arse".
Re: The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
#3Related petition to be debated in parliament: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757233
Re: The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
#4The EFF is very wrong on this one. Some things are bad and we should keep children away from them.
Re: The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
#5> they’ll also lose access to educational videos on YouTube, local events on Facebook, and potentially cut off from distant friends and family.
How in the world did kids ever survive before social media? Miracle of god keeping them sane every second of their miserable deprived lives. Seriously, this is such a bad argument for something that is a return to a previous known good state versus being a new state. No proof provided that social media makes any of these better versus either pre social media approaches or modern alternatives.
Re: The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
#6If governments want to set up online age gates, they should be responsible for providing an electronic ID system and enable privacy preserving age verification (zero knowledge proofs)
Re: The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
#7Honestly I would love to see a ban on social media in general, for all ages (or more specifically, content that's algorithmically feed and reliant on ads/engagement). Take out Tinder and gambling while you're at it. EFF are way off base here - this isn't "free as in free speech" but "free as in giant corporations are free to fuck people up the arse".
I agree, chronological feeds of people you’ve explicitly chosen to follow are fine, but AIs looking to optimize engagement have caused untold damage to society. Future generations will study it as an example of unintended consequences in AI systems. The sooner we shutdown this disastrous technology the better.
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#8The EFF is very wrong on this one. Some things are bad and we should keep children away from them.
Parents are there to protect their children. The potential harm caused by eroded privacy and reduced control over our devices is not worth the perceived benefits of this policy in ensuring children’s safety.
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#9*to billionaires
but snark aside, society needs to have a big conversation (meaning political) about what is good and what is bad about what should really be understood as the 'connectivity revolution' of the last 10-20 years.
Re: The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
#10The EFF is very wrong on this one. Some things are bad and we should keep children away from them.
Great, you do your job as a parent and keep your children away from them while leaving the rest of us free from your envisioned surveillance state.