Re:Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth so...
by roenxi on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:09AM
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If it were bloody obvious the government wouldn't need to be involved, parents would find a way to get their children off social media. And there are much gentler solutions than a ban that should be explored first (like letting households volunteer themselves to be IP-banned by social networks, for example).
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Re:Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth so...
by wseqyrku on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:43AM
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> parents would find a way to get their children off social media.
They wouldn't have a clue. Hell, I personally had this addiction for a long time and it just takes too long to see what a horrible experience it is in the long term. You can argue you should be able to do whatever you want at any age, I'm not the person to say anything about that.
But I totally agree that, as other comments point out, they use it as a justification for all sort of surveillance, I don't really think it is necessary to go that hard because whoever want to get access, they will. It's the internet after all.
Re:Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth so...
by red-iron-pine on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:50PM
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the largest companies in the world have their core profit motive tied to getting you to engage in social media.
asking households to voluntarily leave is like asking people not to get fat -- ain't gonna work, esp. when mega corporations want you to consume consume consume.
it needs to be a law, and it needs to be enforced.
Re:Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth so...
by roenxi on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:26PM
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Are you suggesting we ban people from eating excessive amounts of food? Because you've drawn a parallel and I quite like how we treat food - people can just eat too much if they want to and people tell them not to get fat when they complain that it has negative consequences.