Its basically illegal to be young. I don’t think this is going to change anything. Kids are on the internet because they cant legally express being anything but a minor until they’re a third through their life. They’re constantly monitored, censored, and scrutinized. I think large tech corps are exploiting a real need kids have to participate. Sometimes ::tin foil hat:: I believe this is by design. Thanks for coming to my tedx talk.
I’m not a teenager but getting off Instagram and twitter has been amazing for my wellbeing
That’s all well and good, but getting kids off those platforms is neither the goal nor the outcome of this new law.
It never applied to corpo slop factories in particular
They should punish companies for deliberately creating toxic environments, not kids for trying to interact with the world
It won’t. Hurting teenagers is in the entire point, especially certain vulnerable groups like LGBT teens.
What? How did you come to that conclusion? Most teens would be far better off without the constant barrage of content these websites push to us. Instead of having these laws, parents should be doing their jobs and protect their kids rather than letting their brains rot on the internet.
That’s a dishonest talking point
If they ban social media they should also make it illegal to block access to a website without an account.
They should still be able to browse Facebook and Instagram even without an account, since they are no longer legally able to have an account, and communities and government still insist on posting important information through social media websites that younger people should be able to have access to.
Yeah. Its worse for them, they know that, we all do. It isn’t about what’s good for them it’s about how fucking terrified liberals are of their inability to control the internet as young people make memes about how rad public transit and killing corporate executives is.
