News ReporterFeb 4

Elon Musk calls Pedro Sánchez 'tyrant' over plans to ban minors from using social media

https://lemmy.wtf/post/37331256

Elon Musk calls Pedro Sánchez 'tyrant' over plans to ban minors from using social media - Lemmy.wtf

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Show threadAxolotlFeb 4
The only right thing he said
Show threadcurledFeb 4

How so? It’s pretty much a fact now that social media use is extremely addictive and bad for children’s development.

I don’t know what age limit I’d set but Australia set it at 16 which most people seemed to agree with as reasonable.

Show threadAxolotl

I would set the minimum age at 14, as many other countries do. What the hell does 16 mean? You are literally preventing teenagers from organising themselves properly to go out with friends, from spending time on the bus doing nothing, etc etc.

Stop with this bloody alarmism about ‘social media is too addictive!!!’ Instead, think about banning the stuff that is actually a problem, like doom scrolling

I gotta add this to the original comment so everyone can read

Feb 4 at 2:51pmWeb
Show threadcurledFeb 4

Idk about 16 and never added my opinion about it as I’m no expert on any of this, I just read the occasional study here and there.

Banning infinite scroll is an interesting idea that I hadn’t heard before and feels like it would help with the addictiveness, but it wouldn’t help for platforms like discord where grooming is a rampant problem.

Show threadAxolotlFeb 4

You know what would help stopping discoes grooming?

  • parents actually teaching their child to be safe
  • awareness
  • better moderation
  • a company that is not greedy

    • Discord has shit ass moderation and they don’t touch servers that have a lot of boosts be ause they bring money, so they overlook groomer servers

    Show threadcurledFeb 4

    Ah please, it’s just a specifically egregiously example that I’m guessing most fediverse users would know about. The problem is hardly limited to discord, you can find similar activity on Instagram for example.

    Parents

    Yes, but also the kids who are being groomed are more often than not already in a vulnerable situation. Given that you are indeed familiar with the discord situation I don’t need to explain this any further I hope.

    Awareness

    I’m not sure I’m following, awareness by who? Kids who want attention? Groomers looking for kids to manipulate? The absent parents?

    Moderation

    Might help, but how do you enforce a moderator? Just look at R*ddit where spez himself moderated a jailbait sub.

    Greed

    Now this here I’ll agree would help, but it still doesn’t prevent those who are actively grooming from getting what they want.

    Show threadAxolotlFeb 4

    I’m not sure I’m following, awareness by who? Kids who want attention? Groomers looking for kids to manipulate? The absent parents?

    I mean spreading awareness about the topic, sorry but i was writing it while sleepy and used a translator to find the word i needed, sadly the translator got it wrong

    moderation

    It can be easly improved, right now discord stuff do little to nothing (at least in my exp) when you report someone, it was rare the case where i have seen profiles disappear :/