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Seriously? I don't think you can put that genie back in the bottle...
BBC: Under-16s to be banned from TikTok, YouTube and other social media by next spring, Starmer says
Michael BuschI continue to wonder where the push for these blanket bans on social media, cell phones, etc. are coming from.
Since they manifestly do not help anyone.
Justin Macleod@michael_w_busch @ai6yr the desire for mass surveilence. Such a ban cannot be implemented without mass age verification.
The version here in Minnesota would involve "age estimation" done explicitly by surveilling everyone online.
I am just wondering if this is Facebook / Google / etc. pushing for bans that enable them to do more of the surveillance capitalism they already do to avoid actual effective regulation.
Or if there is some other motivation.
Charlie Stross@michael_w_busch @JustinMac84 @ai6yr AIUI Meta is lobbying *hard* for age verification to be mandated at every level and farmed out to the OS provider. Otherwise they'd be required to moderate their user contributed content, which annoys the shouty neo-nazis who generate the most advertising click-throughs. (They're not yet ready to switch to 100% AI-generated slop content, which would save on the moderation.)
Diane@cstross @michael_w_busch @JustinMac84 @ai6yr
I stumbled on a plausible argument that News corp is a big reason for pushing to ban teens from social media to get them back on traditional media.
https://www.techpolicy.press/youve-been-murdoched-australias-teen-ban-offers-a-warning-for-europe/
Having Australia and the UK be the first to go hard for teen bans is certainly consistent with it being due to news corp lobbying
Offbeatmammal@alienghic @cstross @michael_w_busch @JustinMac84 @ai6yr perhaps they need to ban old people from watching/reading News Corp slop?
You might like this commentary on the teen social media moral panic introduced by a bit of elder TV satire.
https://zephoria.substack.com/p/protect-elders-ban-television
Protect Elders! Ban Television!!
Television is a serious problem! We must stop elders from watching TV for their own safety!Using a bit of satire, I dive into the current conversation about protecting children from social media "for their mental health." The tl;dr of this story: New regulations are fundamentally about exerting control over young people. They will do the opposite of helping them. #socialmedia #mentalhealth #safety #children