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That genie has long since left the bottle and I wouldn't bank on being able to put it back in.
Instead of incessantly banning and censoring everything that might be remotely harmful and kicking the can down the road, perhaps we should be focusing on education and tackling the problems that make social media so toxic to begin with. It's not by accident - these platforms are for-profit businesses and they benefit from encouraging toxic behaviour in the name of engagement.
You want an actual solution to the problem instead of a fake solution that will generate other problems for those in power to take advantage of (like censoring, reducing privacy etc.)?? Wow.. I'm with you
I'm totally up for this. Yes, some kids will find out how to circumvent it and yes, some parents won't abide by it but even if a law isn't completely enforceable it totally changes people's attitudes on a population level. Look at the ban on smoking in indoor public spaces for example.
There are lots of great ways to moderate and balance freedom and privacy. Also for young people. For-profit companies failed at it.
Ban algorithms, make data-collection default opt-out, disallow attention-for-ads business model. Or just close it all.
Oh look, a demographic with 40% who have admitted to being domestically abusive trying to further restrict children's ability to find support and avoid isolation.
Good luck
Likely won't work.
Buuut, what if the government made an alternative social media kids could access?
All while making access to adult social media extremely inconvenient (at this point the big ones should require IDs I'm sorry internet freedom bros I don't see another option).
This kid-friendly something where rules are more strictly enforced and moderation could end up with the kid's school being told about the kid saying the N word or whatever, to teach kids that with free speech comes the responsibility for one's speech and it's consequences, plus that could also just repell them from the concept outright.
This social media would have no data harvesting/personalized algorithm, no encryption and full ID checks on sign ups and 100% human moderation, just chronological sorting and a paginated feed, with filters by local and country-wide, and parents would have to pay a small fee for it.
This kid-friendly something where rules are more strictly enforced and moderation could end up with the kid's school being told about the kid saying the N word or whatever
I remember entering an incorrect domain/regex to an Automod config once. Thankfully because I checked the logs often it only happened for a short while, and people didn't get too mad.
But then you have really incompetent operators like those censors over in Italy and Spain with PiracyShield™ etc
I mean - 30mins for them to block Google Drive nationwide is something I think no-one wants, without some level of accountability, but when you've got dickheads like me that can regex out Nigella Lawson Pr0n accidentally, is scary.
I've thought for a long time that a Mastodon instance administered by adults would be a good solution.