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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by cabalamat on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:51AM (#35451631)
> It's not clear how you could effectively regulate this stuff - especially in our highly polarised political climate. The right will immediately target "wokeness", and the left will immediately target "hate speech". And the kids will be totally forgotten about.

A good start would be to ban feeds based on algorithms; instead your feed would be a chronological list of new posts from channels you've chosen to follow.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by arbitrage on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:35AM (#35453904)
> A good start would be to ban feeds based on algorithms; instead your feed would be a chronological list of new posts from channels you've chosen to follow.

The replacement you've described for an algorithm is still an algorithm.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by cabalamat on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:17AM (#35502025)
Stop being pedantic; you know what I mean.
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by drc500free on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:20AM (#35454695)
So ban HN?
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by cabalamat on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:20AM (#35502045)
HN has no concept of following certain individuals, and is a niche website aimed at a particular audience. I mean in things like Twitter, Facebook or YouTube.
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