• _number8_@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    really hating this slew of legislation where kids are allowed to work 40 hr weeks now but they’re too smol for the internet

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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    9 months ago

    Unpopular opinion: it’s been extensively studied that addictive corporate social media like Instagram and TikTok cause developmental damage, depression, and can lead to suicide in a statistically significant proportion of young adolescents. It should be regulated just like we do with cigarettes.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, it’s just that the R douchnozzles pushing it in most places also want to tack it on with secuality-related stuff, parent helicoptering and we’ll trodden and failed shit ideas of social control.

      Meanwhile not a single one of them will vote for internet privacy laws to slow the rape of Americans data on the daily.

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      9 months ago

      The judge’s arguments in this case are bogus - minors don’t have any free speech rights, or e.g. public schools wouldn’t be the free speech free zones that they are - but your argument is much, much worse, because it hurts adults and minors. You want to see where your argument leads, go look at the state of porn in Louisiana.

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    9 months ago

    Good.

    More ways to exclude and marginalize young people is not what society needs. Social media can be a lifeline for people who otherwise cannot live authentically or get access to literally anything true any other way.