Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Finnish public health authority THL and two-thirds of Finns are in favour of banning or restricting the use of social media by under-15s.
They probably won’t / can’t ban small / foreign federated social media like ours. Kids who really want to hang out on socials ought to crawl onto the Fediverse. Like we did on forums at the pre-social media stage of the internet.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and even your worst enemy will sometimes agree with you. Social media may not be automatically bad but effectively all for-profit implementations are irredeemably corrupted and a catastrophic danger to the fabric of democracy and civilization. Banning it will not eliminate it but it is the only viable harm reduction strategy we have available for any of us at this point. Techbro dominance and devastating levels of abuse by cynical, manipulative actors has robbed us of the luxury of choosing any more reasonable, nuanced approaches.
Except this solution has nothing to do with your complaints. It’s not a ban, it’s age verification, i.e., improved data gathering, and that applies to all users, not just children.
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They probably won’t / can’t ban small / foreign federated social media like ours. Kids who really want to hang out on socials ought to crawl onto the Fediverse. Like we did on forums at the pre-social media stage of the internet.
with guardian supervision, of course
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and even your worst enemy will sometimes agree with you. Social media may not be automatically bad but effectively all for-profit implementations are irredeemably corrupted and a catastrophic danger to the fabric of democracy and civilization. Banning it will not eliminate it but it is the only viable harm reduction strategy we have available for any of us at this point. Techbro dominance and devastating levels of abuse by cynical, manipulative actors has robbed us of the luxury of choosing any more reasonable, nuanced approaches.
Except this solution has nothing to do with your complaints. It’s not a ban, it’s age verification, i.e., improved data gathering, and that applies to all users, not just children.
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