Let your Congress-critters know this is not the right thing to do.
It wouldnt hurt the little kids to get off the internet.
To clarify, I 100% think this bill is bad for adults, privacy, and the internet.
However…
“The end result of this law would likely be that a huge number of young people—particularly the most vulnerable—would lose access to social media platforms, which can play a critical role for young people in accessing resources and support in a wide variety of circumstances”
Social Media has a documented, well-studied, negative effect on young people’s mental health. We really could and should be doing more as a society to prevent young people from using it / pressuring social media platforms to fix the inherently negative issues with social media. This bill isn’t the answer, but acting like kids and teens should have free reign of web apps that are known to be bad for them isn’t the answer either.
Maybe stop for a second and consider how this bill is meant to act in concert with library book bans and cuts to school curriculum. Conservatives are coordinating bills and policies to cut off access to important knowledge about marginalized communities.
The only way the far-right can build a young political base is if they can keep entire generations ignorant and uneducated, and unfortunately kids in red districts can’t rely on getting the education they need to be informed citizens from schools.
Precisely this. Just like there’s solid research showing the bad effects of social media on kids generally, there’s solid research showing the positive effects of social media in the case of LGBTQI+ youth. This is designed to let oppressively religious families cut off their queer children from “the world” and from the idea that “it gets better.” Kids are gonna die.
That’s a job for the parents though isn’t it? And for early teenagers people seem to forget what positive influence the internet could have on their lives. Eg. many IT workers started fiddling around with stuff when they were quite young.
I’m just glad there was no internet as it is today when I was 13. The internet of the 90s? Good. The internet of the 2020s with algorithms fighting for your attention? Yuck.
At what point do we say “Screw it”, let Congress pass all the bills to wreck the internet, and then build a better one?
How exactly does one build a “better one” that doesn’t automatically get included in the coverage of bills like this?
Long past time to do it. It’s not even congress but the market share of the internet has been centralizing around the handful of FAANG or whatever acronym. Unfortunately too much of the tech nerd population have been seduced by the dark side. A reconstructed world wide web would be very hard to gain enough traction without enough nerds backing it.
I want them to pass an act called “Stop Protecting Kids on Social Media.” It can be part of the FUCKTHEMKIDS omnibus.
YoU dOnT wAnT tO pRoTeCt ThE kIdS?!
we need a Sarcastic Lock that works like Caps Lock, in case se want to write a novel sarcastically, otherwise, too much wotk
It was built into Apollo (the Reddit app for IOS). You could type something highlight it and select “sPonGeTExt” from a menu to set random letters uppercase in a block of text.
Time to add this to Summit for Lemmy
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