Tilton RaccoonEstonia, you are wonderful and I agree.
“Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says”
tivasykthis sounds as a good idea at first.
until one tries to _really_ think about it.
should we also «regulate» breweries to only sell milk instead of beer? should be «regulate» bars and other adults-only establishments instead of keeping kids out?
if it's true that kids _will_ find their way in, it's also true that stupid, greedy, dishonest and simply evil people _will_ fibd their way around any half-measure regulations to mess with the kids' brains.
i hate «social media» and i'd rather see all the facebooks & tiktoks and (sic!) youtubes burn in hell, but this is not the point at the moment. the point is: more regulation instead of «banning kids» would not solve the problem, it would only give bigtech even more power over people.
imho.
until one tries to _really_ think about it.
should we also «regulate» breweries to only sell milk instead of beer? should be «regulate» bars and other adults-only establishments instead of keeping kids out?
if it's true that kids _will_ find their way in, it's also true that stupid, greedy, dishonest and simply evil people _will_ fibd their way around any half-measure regulations to mess with the kids' brains.
i hate «social media» and i'd rather see all the facebooks & tiktoks and (sic!) youtubes burn in hell, but this is not the point at the moment. the point is: more regulation instead of «banning kids» would not solve the problem, it would only give bigtech even more power over people.
imho.
Nina Felwitch 
@tivasyk This is the dumbest thing I've heard all week.
Regulating big tech and forcing them to actually put in measures against bullying, hate and misinformation would NOT give big tech more power over people.
Regulating big tech and forcing them to actually put in measures against bullying, hate and misinformation would NOT give big tech more power over people.
@ninafelwitch «This is the dumbest thing I've heard all week» – that could be because you're not addressing what i said, you're addressing what _you believe_ i said without seemingly having actually _read_ or cared to _understand_ what i said. i'm not surprised since this seems to be an old tradition on social networks. you do you.
…and just to make this clear for any other reader: i welcome discussion and different points of view; but i don't tolerate twisting my words nor personal attacks, it's an instablock.
in this case: i do not call for stopping whatever regulations are in place, nor do i call anyone's opinion stupid; what i question is the efficacity of _both_ proposed solutions :-/
in this case: i do not call for stopping whatever regulations are in place, nor do i call anyone's opinion stupid; what i question is the efficacity of _both_ proposed solutions :-/
@tilton This is why I love Estonia.
...Frosty! ❄️🦊@tilton I'm kicking myself a little bit for not leaving enough time to take a ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn when I was there in early 2025.
Then again, I got to spend a week in Finland, and that's not so bad, either.
@frosty I’ve loved Estonia since high school! My English teacher was born there and moved to the US at 14, so she still had major cultural ties. She moved back there in the late 90s in fact.
Tadpole 