I’m asking for public policy ideas here. A lot of countries are enacting age verification now. But of course this is a privacy nightmare and is ripe for abuse. At the same time though, I also understand why people are concerned with how kids are using social media. These products are designed to be addictive and are known to cause body image issues and so forth. So what’s the middle ground? How can we protect kids from the harms of social media in a way that respects everyone’s privacy?
I have been pro banning all for-profit social media for years. I can live without Reddit. Especially now with Lemmy and fediverse. I can even live with no social media whatsoever. We should probably ban all porn too. It is just as brain rotting as social media. I say this as someone who does watch porn. I can live without it if society gets better from banning it.
If you can live without it you should try to live without it now. I understand that it’s hard to do so, but still.
Had to remove my upvote when the porn
Don’t worry, neither porn or social media will ever get banned :) but the fact that you react so negatively to it should perhaps make you reflect upon your own habits, the way people using social media should reflect upon theirs.
We are on a thread talking about government overreach online. You are talking about banning porn. Have you not seen how governments are CURRENTLY over reaching due to “porn bad”?
I am sorry I didn’t realize this was an echo chamber where you can only voice validating and approving opinions.
I mainly think banning SM is better than trying age verification or some other way to exclude children. If it is 99% toxic trash then it should just be banned.
Next in line is 99% of all porn, which is also toxic trash. If one applies the same logic as previously, then it should be banned too.
Unregulated use of morphine (heroine) is bad, thus we ban it.
It is interesting though how strongly you react to porn specifically getting banned. Maybe you should reflect on that.
Woah, you made some, kinda unhinged, leaps there.
99% of porn is toxic trash? How? Based on what? Says who? When?
Its actually kinda amazing you mentioned this. How has the War On DrugsTM gone?