Why tf would anyone care about the police chiefs' opinions? Did they pick up a graduate degree in psychology before becoming state ~~thugs~~ agents?
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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It's technically impossible, so a pretty pointless discussion.
And it's dangerous too. Even if they legislated them off the major platforms, there's a million other ways to communicate online. Hundreds of DMs, talkers, games, live chats, streams, even IRC still exists. And pushing them into the darker corners makes it far more likely for them to be exposed to coercive and controlling types. Extremism, child abuse, bullying, suicide encouragement and so on.
Or even worse, they might come to lemmy!
Lmao maybe they should wait and see how Australian ban later this year turns out to be because it's looking like an absolute clown show rn.
It's basically unenforceable so I presume not a whole lot will change
Kids are growing up, testing limits and learning, That is what kids do!
I think that a ban won't fix this, but instead ban anonymous use. If you have to use your real name, most behave much nicer. You become accountable, and that is a good thing for everyone to learn.
Also perhaps a minimum age of say 13 could be a good idea - you need to reach a certain age before you are able to foresee consequences and understand how your actions effect others.
I call for a ban on police chiefs
Yeah this is gonna work as well as "you must be over 13 to use this site"
They can require ID verification of all users, as is done in some states in the US to access pornography sites.
And that is a gross overreach
Looks like they think this will work better than telling social media companies that they have a social responsibility
of course it will, the real scam meat is in the 30-60 year olds.
They also don't deserve to be scammed, but once again asking the companies to police their own content is "impossible." Musk still needs the cash for a new political party when his current toy breaks
I somewhat agree. Social Media has ita positive sides on youth, here and there, but i think at this point the negative outweighs the positive
If at least kids would be on non corporate platforms like Lemmy where not every idea they get is whatever the corporation wants you to have, I might be more open to it but as it is today, teenagers will be fed whatever shit ideas it is that their algorithm shoves in their mouths. Today, that is a lot of highly conservative red pill men propaganda bull crap.
So censorship then, just with more excuses
Do you consider porn being 18+ to be censorship?
Have you considered the fact that, you cannot read between the lines ?
Also the age of consent is 16 in most countries, you have no clue how fascism works, do you ??
It always starts with something acceptible & then a chain-reaction
I am aware the age of consent is 16 here. How is age restricting something fascism?
social media bans for teenagers is never about safety and always about blocking access to queer support systems and stifling dissent.
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