Nathan Dyer5d ago

Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16.

We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.

Show threadGa Schu5d ago
@nathandyer
I'm not sure about the point of the post.
1. anecdotal evidence is not a solid back up for an argument.
2. I don't think anybody is blocking young people from tinkering at home?
3. Putting hurdles in the way adds motivation to learn or find creative ways how to circumvent them.
4. Big corporations have teams of psychologists convincing people to spend time on their platforms. The assumption that young people are cleverer than them is disrespecting the psychological profession.
Show threadbiyokea5d ago
@schuga @nathandyer why not regulate corporations instead of kids/teens' (and others) freedom then ?
Show threadMu4d ago
@biyokea @schuga @nathandyer regulating access to customers *is* regulating businesses?
Show threadbiyokea4d ago
@mu @schuga @nathandyer sure. I meant regulating the behaviours that make them unsafe/predatory/harmful/... for minors (and everyone else)
Show threadMu

@biyokea @schuga @nathandyer I don't think that's worked so far, and I'm cynical enough that I think it will be really hard to directly regulate the people that spend hundreds of millions influencing politicians.

I'm open to evidence in the other direction if you have any examples where politicians have regulated big tech in that way.

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