Social media ban for teenagers/kids, what do we think?

@hpod16 The addictive mechanisms from Social Media are a problem for people of every age that needs to be regulated. Also teenagers don’t become immune to those mechanisms suddenly on their 16th birthday.

@hpod16 IMHO a stupid idea!

Instead of properly regulating those engagement-driven platforms which are destroying the very fabric of our societies, we'll introduce a mandatory identity verification for everyone, just to prevent kids from using them.

This way, we'll end up with catastrophic implementations of age verification with data leaking left and right, loss of anonymity/privacy while not addressing the elephant in the room: allowing those platforms to act in whatever way they want.

@hpod16 Better than banning teenagers/kids from Social Media (which anyway does not really work) is forcing service providers to make their platform a safe space for all of us.

@hpod16@eupolicy.social Can't parents just raise their kids instead? Banning social media is a poor shortcut to "solve" the issue.

@hpod16

"[...] This is not child protection; it is digital house arrest. Instead of hunting the perpetrators, the victims are being locked up. This is the logic of an overreaching nanny state that mistrusts its citizens. True security comes from strong families, not from state paternalism that drives teenagers into digital isolation. It won’t work anyway: our children will simply ask us to register their phones as adult devices."

Quote from: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/digital-house-arrest-how-the-eu-wants-to-disempower-families/

@hpod16 social media companies need to change their algorithms and better protect young and vulnerable users. They make billions. They can afford the dev work to do this.

@hpod16 Depends on how it’s implemented. Digital ID checks: absolutely no! That is a data privacy nightmare. Going after big tech for addictive mechanisms: yes.

In the end you need to get rid of the addictive part to get children off of social media.

@hpod16 it's a stupid idea.

Teenagers are more intelligent than any of old people in gov. so i let 3 to 6 hours for any ban to be bypassed.

And that will reduce their security as no one will ensure their security anymore because officially they aren't there anymore

@hpod16 Not Social Media, only Asocial Media like - almost all commercial ones. Why only for children? If lying would be taxed…

Other:

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Let’s break free from
Big Tech social media
and reconnect,
me and you.

@hpod16 Ban social media for adults. History has proven that we are not responsible enough to run it or use it.
Kids would probably run it and use it just fine if it wasn’t for those pesky adults.