EXCLUSIVE: EU could announce social media ban for kids in September
Von der Leyen is expected to use her annual State of the Union speech to unveil plans for EU-wide age restrictions on social media
What a disgusting rage bait title.
Please no matter the news do not invite others to give up. You might be totally depleted. You might have fought teeth and nails against problems but if you want to give up let others try.
This is deeply problematic and of course precisely helps those you do agree with.
Do not fall prey to learned helplessness.
If politicians and lobbyists can keep on proposing a law until it goes through, so can we, including the very politicians who do not represent our views.
The situation might be bleak and I can understand the frustration but this kind of title is not helping.
It should be dependent on the sites offering adult material to have an account with a login. All other non-adult sites keep operating as before and kids can peruse freely. If a kid steals a password that’s a kid thing, not a system thing. Nothing is foolproof and people get slapped in the face with shit they don’t want to see all the time. Education and proper implementation is the key, not restriction and censorship.
Adoption is perhaps the impetus needed for common sense to prevail. If everyone keeps spending all their money at a partcular casino, they aren’t going to change a thing. But if everyone stopped coming, you can be damn sure they start looking at what they can reform. Nothing improves if people don’t start to care about the security of their PII. That’s a huge rock.
Yeah. For sure. Nothing is simply black and white anymore. Lots to consider.
I mean, kids are smart when it comes to technology, some even more than me who got a degree in computer science.
They’ll find an alternative, maybe they’ll to go back to personal websites, or join the fediverse, who knows.
Imma stay optimistic
While this is obviously bad, I don’t think there’s ever really a total win or loss when it comes to this stuff. It’s a constant fight. They’ll bring shit like this in and it’ll seem hopeless, then someone will bypass it and it’ll go back and forth. Same as ad blocking or DRM or countless other things.
It’d be nice to not have to deal with it in the first place, but we’ll deal with it sooner or later I’m sure.
So how is that going to work exactly?
Facebook is easy, you force the company or block it.
But how about, say, Lemmy, or other self hosted places maybe where where people do use their real names? How is any of this supposed to work?
Now to ban it for all the other age groups, too. /s but only kinda
For sure. Reddit doesn’t start “testing” it just for sport.
Where have I seen such worldwide concerted action among all governments and corporations. Ah yes, when China “leaked” a virus.
Did they save lives?
or
Did they put us in house arrest?
And they put people in house arrest, because… ? I just saw tanks being transported on public-roads today. So the reason couldn’t be to covertly move weapons: that goes on in public, in broad daylight and that transit sits alongside vans delivering ice-creams to convenience stores. So, the big cabal wanted to put people under house arrest… to do what?
Pick up a book. Pandemics aren’t new and neither is the orchestrated response to them by governing bodies. History can be a good reference.
So they used medieval techniques got it.
Well they didn’t, but concerning your teensy little pee brain of yours, could as well have.
I know they did the same in 1919, that’s barely 20th century. And an entire century of medical progress early.