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What does this ban actually mean? As I understand it, it bans kids from creating an account. They can still doom scroll or waste their life watching reels without a login, don't they? This may push social media back to making their content accessible without an account :)
At least for Twitch that means they can't give money to streamers making a small country's GDP a month.
This doesn’t strike me as “bad”. Seeing the content on Twitch and how parasocial it is, it doesn’t seem healthy for kids under 18 tbh. Like Facebook was the craze when I was exiting highschool, and then it was instagram/snapchat/twitter through college. “Quitting” social media was one of the healthiest adult choices I ever made—comparison is the thief of joy, blah blah blah.
make no mistake, this is about deanonymization and has nothing to do with "think of the children"
I wish they would’ve just banned smartphones and tablets for kids. Same thing how alcohol is banned. Sure parents will still buy them for their kids but at least for a few hours a day they’ll need to leave the devices at home.
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Being a parent myself, the list is not random. The ones in the banned list deserve to be there. I would argue Youtube Kids needs to be banned too.
Discord and Roblox are probably the grooming/edating center of the net right now. The banned ones are just SFW sites where they can see some titties.
Banned for the wrong reason. It's a cam girl site targeted at kids.
Its not a cam girl site targeted at kids. There are thousands of streamers on the platform playing different games. I do agree that the pool / beach section should be closed but honestly its a minority (look at the viewer stats - kids can get porn a lot easier then twitch). Also, that section is not targeted at kids, its targeted at adults in nations with anti porn laws, which gets apparent when you look at who is do…
Given how fucked up the recent generation in thousand little ways and addictions is, and I personally believe predatory 'social media' and overall resulting physical alienation are the largest culprit, these steps are good or at least well-intended. Those corporations are predatory, aimed at weakest and most defenseless (kids), ruining their future lives one bit at a time.
Sure, it should be mostly parents managing their kids well and giving them smart phones or consoles as late as possible in their development curve, but if something is so harmful, some regulation makes sense. 0 sympathies for meta-esque corporations, its us-vs-them due to their endless greed.
This doesn’t go far enough. Kids under 18 shouldn’t be allowed to use smartphones period.
Why just smartphones? Why not all computers?
* Heads up for desktops, head down for smart phones .. avoid early neck problems.
* No one got run over at a cross walk looking at their desktop.
* Probably (debatable) less screen time over all if smartphones banned, desktops left in.
Not a debate hill I'd choose to die on though, it's all very subjective and varies family to family.
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Why just smartphones? Why not all computers?
At a guess; * Heads up for desktops, head down for smart phones .. avoid early neck problems. * No one got run over at a cross walk looking at their desktop. * Probably (debatable) less screen time over all if smartphones banned, desktops left in. Not a debate hill I'd choose to die on though, it's all very subjective and varies family to family.
> * No one got run over at a cross walk looking at their desktop.
In all the discussions about these bans and the effects of phones and social media on kids, I've never once seen physical health brought up (at least directly) :P
Fair points, but not exactly what I think concerns people like GP :P
> it's all very subjective and varies family to family.
Whoa get out of here that's far too nuanced for this topic.
What does this ban actually mean? As I understand it, it bans kids from creating an account. They can still doom scroll or waste their life watching reels without a login, don't they? This may push social media back to making their content accessible without an account :)
At least for Twitch that means they can't give money to streamers making a small country's GDP a month.