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Unironically based, social media is bad for kids anyways
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The social media era is going to make leaded gasoline look like a joke. Stats show that kids are now dumber, gayer, and more suicidal than they were 20 years ago. And then r-slurs will have the temerity to blame this on muh climate anxiety and not the fact you hooked every developing child up to a machine that generates neurodivergent narcissism.
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That and I dislike the idea that corporations manipulate people to try to claim every minute of time they have. Being bored is good for kids because it forces them to have new ideas and seek new things. Corporations would rather they stare at ads and give up data. Obviously social media has financial interest that conflicts with human wellbeing.
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A very important point which is disregarded in favour of the fun pictures and bright lights. I have experience with this, was a hardcore loser Reddit doom scroller for a long time before I deleted that. Made a positive difference on my world view very quickly lol
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Yeah I became a social media conscientious objector a few years ago, deleted everything except anonymous stuff and trimmed my feeds down a lot. It's worth it. I just don't want to give up laughing at internet drama.
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My theory is that internet media is used very heavily for warfare purposes, such as information, psychological and economic ops. Laughing at internet drama hopefully skirts around all that heavy stuff by refusing to take anything seriously.
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I actually agree. For example, China limits TikTok use to like 40 mins a day and it's all educational/patriotic content. Look at what they let our kids watch all day, absolute brain rot material. I think that internet-savvy countries are going to be using social media as a way to hinder economies and societies by spreading bullshit around. Shit like how Russia had people arguing extremes, often against each other even, just so that onlooking Americans would have a picture of extreme division.
It can be dangerous, like my father recently has been watching what he says is the "real news" that is basically shit Chinese algos feed him on TikTok. And this is a dude who is obsessively anti government spying on MAGA people willingly letting China track his whole phone.
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No shit, they were already figuring out propaganda warfare during WW1, they have had a 100 years of research to back them up now.
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Based
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This is one of the major consequences of capitalism that most online leftoids don't even talk about because they can't imagine a life without being mindless consumers: being made to feel that you're supposed to be stimulated for every moment of your life.
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I've noticed the people who screech about capitalism the most are the most voluntarily capitalized
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Their solution for capitalism is basically hoping for a revolution at some point but in the meanwhile giving as much power to gov entities as possible. They sincerely believe the gov is actually separate from the corporate class so having the gov be their daddy will definitely minimize the effects of capitalism.
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This time the kids are ACTUALLY r-slurred.
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Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Reading mean words on the internet is definitely much worse than breathing in toxic chemicals
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How many school shootings will it take before so-called progressive parents or the governments start to take notice of the real problem? How many Jan 6 riots will it take?
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Good. That means less competition for boomer chads.
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who cares about that? the important thing is that they shit up the internet and this could help stop that. k*ds should be banned from everywhere on the internet that allows you to interact with other people
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iPhone could easily implement this by their face recognition software. Just detect for childish proportions, features and lock the phone. Black screen for any curious kiddies
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But of course, the redditors have a problem with this.
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If the EU attempted this all of reddit would be cooming
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If China did this both rdrama rightoids (muh rights) and Reddit libs (muh bideo games) would be angry
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China already has heavy restrictions in the social media and video games children can access.
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They really do frfr. I think you have to sign up with something akin to your social security number to play bideo games
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on weekdays
I think they get 3 hours saturday and sunday
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youth accounts can only play for one hour a day fri-sun so itβs a de facto online gaming ban. but most parents just make an account for their kid so the regulations have little effect. like how COD is rated M but every lobby is filled with 12 year olds.
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My impression of China is that everyone finds ways to break restrictions and lives looking over their shoulder
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Because that's basically the only way to live.
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Their birth rate is still collapsed though, however their average child is actually smarter.
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Helps when you kill all the r-slurs because you're only allowed one kid.
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That too.
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They already do and most people are hesitantly supportive outside of the League of Legends community
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more like not cooming
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You mean they would seethe because they couldnt coom to kids in /r/teenagers anymore
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Probably zero chance it would be enforceable but based nonetheless.
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Looks like my rdrama carrier pigeon service is back on the table
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Why are you sending messages via carrier pigeon from the homosexual dramaposting forums to children?
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Children?
Like a child would go outside and interact with a pigeon or know how to read handwriting
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rDrama is a social media site this will forbid under 18s from visiting here. Probably a good thing tbh.
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They're already forbidden, this would just make aevann have to check ids.
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I'm an adult and aaaallll the way in Scotland, Amerimutts can cope.
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Huh. For some reason, I thought you were an American teenage girl tbh.
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Are you poor?
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no
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And we would be safe against Penny infiltration
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Not le social media, it's a fourm. Checkmate, rightoids.
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Do you mean legally or technically?
I figure if they managed to enforce it against the big networks (tiktok, facebook, reddit, twitter, uhhhh insta?) that would generally be plenty. Probably by requiring some kind of ID. I mean online gambling sites do it, right?
Regardless, it's clearly a worthwhile endeavor just for the seethe.
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Thereβs already laws for under 13 and those arenβt exactly enforced.
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Agreed.
Realistically itβs a good thing to happen regardless because itβll probably finally accelerate some SCOTUS rulings in regards to the first amendment and social media because itβll almost certainly be blocked by some federal judge on those grounds.
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The first amendment only protects you from the government, not from private companies. So whether or not Facebook gets taken down, it doesn't really matter from a first amendment perspective.
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Darn I just got btfoβd by a bot.
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Your not good enough to even beat a bot, no wonder your such a pathetic loser in life.
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VPNs exist.
Unless there was global ID, this would be easy to bypass.
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have you fricking seen zoomers? at most 1% of them could setup a VPN to get around this, and that includes the ones with nerd friends to do it for them.
this is the group of r-slurs who don't know how directories/folders work. they're unironically as bad as boomers with tech.
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Yes and it makes me seethe
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I'm convinced this is a psyop.
I'm in college. Everyone seems pretty familiar with computers, and most people own laptops.
I refuse to believe over half of these BIPOCs don't understand what a "folder" is.
I don't know what journos are hoping to accomplish, but they're lying (as usual).
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Honestly, I try not to interact with zoomzooms, so most of my info is second-hand from my friend who's a high school teacher.
Do you go to a technical college?
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Engineering school with a troubling amount of foids.
Supposedly one of the five best universities in Portugal, but I'm an r-slur and got in, so
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Top 5 in country with 20 people.
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https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/universidade-de-lisboa-501120
Ranked 99th best university for engineering, and 38th for CivE specifically.
It's a big fish in a small pond, but I know I'm getting hiring priority once I start applying for work in Portugal, and if I ever go foreign I can just tell potential employers that I graduated from the best school in the country.
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well no shit the students at an engineering school are gonna be above average at computers lol
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IDs can be faked, or you could just claim to not be from Texas. But the requirement that companies must have a structure to delete kids' social media accounts by parental request would improve things.
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Literally every social media would improve if they banned minors
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or if they just required an ID, most people would say frick off and just not have social media. It could save the world, not just minors
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this bill would require ID for everyone, so it'd kill two birds with one stone
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You forget how overwhelmingly obnoxious teenagers are until you have to interact with them.
I despise teachers but maybe some of their endless whining is justified by the fact that they have to deal with 16-year-olds all day.
Fat, bearded, 20-something Redditor communists are paragons of virtue & manners by comparison.
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Please Allah ban children completely off of the internet, or at least construct a parallel kids-only internet that's all they can access until they turn 18
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Make it so the only site they can access is Club Penguin
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This is just /r/teenagers, roblox, groomercord and tiktok in practice, they tend to self segregate
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All of those platforms are filled with 40 year old men pretending to be teenagers though.
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This is a good thing, they need adult guardians.
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The kids only version should only link to Transrightsmatter.com
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This is a pretty solid take, logistics be darned. Sorta like how old school big family gatherings might have an "adults" table and the kids table. A shorter table with shorter legged chairs. Served and overseen by respectable adults.
Better yet, it needs to be separated somehow. Read-only scholastic access needs to be available to children/everyone but social media in general needs to be treated like a driver's license is. It is a PRIVILEGE, not a right. Children don't get to drive on public roads and require classes, tests and provisional licenses at a certain age for more access. Even then, so-called adults must stay currently licensed and insured with withdrawal or suspension of the privilege as an option. The framework is imperfect but already there.
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They should ban it for everyone it's been a disaster
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Someone has to do something about Reddit and tick tock pedos. Donβt mess with Texas!
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I can't wait for the Facebook propaganda that attempts to say that social media is good for brain development or something
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Ban the internet for under 25s
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Have s*x incel
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No.
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how about we ban social media for children under 18 and adults 18 and over?
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Does that apply to Groomercord though? Gotta deprive groomers of their most fertile hunting grounds.
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Yes but this bill is going nowhere in two weeks
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Reddit comments are full of teenagers who won the argument with their parents about how awesome and valid phone time is. Now the debate is going nationwide!
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how will i meet young boys on the internet?
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It's over, chuds won
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My god itβs like republicans have decided they want to win elections
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How is
@Jinglevann gonna enforce this?
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This but also ban boomers. Facebook was actually fun until everyones parents signed up
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honestly a good idea
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terrible for texas dramatards
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Groomers most affected.
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Good
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Zoomers deserve it.
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Snapshots:
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/zgot34/texas_bill_would_ban_social_media_for_children/?sort=controversial:
undelete.pullpush.io
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Most zoomers are over 18 now, you're talking an Alpha-cide
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