News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in world first. Parent comment

Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by fainpul on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:31PM (#46221510)
> we had magazines, TV, and the web, they all had advertising, and no population-level impact on child & teen mental health impact was observed as these were adopted

That is not true. Distorted body perception, anorexia etc. due to omnipresent photoshopped models in magazines and poster ads where a thing decades ago.

Things escalated with social media, but there were issues long before that.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by insane_dreamer on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:38AM (#46228041)
> Things escalated with social media, but there were issues long before that.

The escalation, the ubiquitousness, is the problem.

It's like the difference to your health between having a can of coke week and drinking a 2 L bottle of coke every day.

[ Parent | on HN ]