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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah no, this is the same narrative as the UK with the madness that is their internet censorship laws.

What we need is proper education about these topics taught to both adults and children, its up to the parents to protect their children, and we need to teach them how to do it themselves.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    education is not a silver bullet solution against propaganda. nobody is immune to it, and hyper-targeted algorithmic feeds are an order of magnitude more effective at influencing opinion than traditional print campaigns. it has never been easier to manufacture consensus and consent, and that kind of power absolutely needs guardrails. this is not a 'for the children' thing; younger people are uniquely vulnerable but this affects everybody on these platforms.

    obviously mass censorship and social media bans are not the solution but there must be a better way than giving big tech corporations carte blanche to poison people's brains for their advertisers' ends (and their own).

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  • [+] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Then again - it would probably be asked too much from parents to keep an eye on their kids all the time, every second. Even when they are not around their kid (like, during school).

    (Responsible) Services should be viewed, and controlled from more than only one point of view/party. (Just like everything else as well)

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    Power and money are easily the biggest goals and wants that lots of people have.

    But I do (still) trust in the goodness of men.
    I'd argue that e.g. an open source system could have a (more) benevolent cause and help someone with these problems without using data (gained) for profit.

    No surveillance (or monitoring) and no data gathering means you cannot see how good/bad something (such as a behavior) is. And in such a situation it's difficult to come up with tools to help, if there's "no problem to give help to".
    (One can always self-monitor e.g. time spent in an app)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago
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    I'd rather just get rid of TikTok and the algorithm corporate social medias personally.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Minors should not be allowed on the internet at all. Or maybe limited to wikipedia and other information sources.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why do you support isolating gay kids in abusive households?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why do you support, body dysmorphia, and child suicide? Why do you support political radicalization? Grow up

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Being able to talk to people over the internet is the only reason I didn't kill myself as a teenager. Evil people who want to control other people's children are using the internet as a scapegoat

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    For every one of you, there are more kids either getting groomed, radicalized, or driven to suicide themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're scapegoating the internet for institutionally supported harms to children. Church is radicalizing more boys that internet videos, and that's seem as encouraged

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Not only minors.

    Fascist propaganda must be censored as fuck.

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