Eugen RochkoRE: https://phpc.social/@theshaunwalker/116753314614249073
As someone who found friends and community exclusively through the online world back when I was a teen, 💯
Flash Mob Of One@Gargron Some form of regulation is inevitable. All we had to worry about as kids were popup ads.
The product these kids are using is harmful and built that way deliberately.
I don't know what the right solution is, though. It would be good if parents were more active, but they're not. This problem persists because the vast majority park a child in front of a screen and leave them there.
The FrogIndeed, it needs to be regulated. This tech IS dangerous, as we've seen in Belfast. But I think where it misses the mark is by putting the onus users and their parents instead of disciplining the social media companies. Especially those providing tools to produce, for free, child sexual material.
Because at the end of the day, it does damage to grown arse adults too!
Noodlemaz@FlashMobOfOne @Gargron it's dealing with the companies that make the product. That made them harmful. On purpose. Knowingly.
We know Facebook/Meta has done and continues to do this.
The solution is not targeting the population for surveillance. It is fucking regulating these techbros who think they're gods.
Screens are not the issue. TV doesn't hurt, we have programming regulations in place, things like watershed, advertising laws. Social media giants should not be left to their own devices.