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A comment on Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media. Parent comment

Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by baq on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:12PM (#46841426)
Parental controls don’t work, they’re too coarse grained and too easy to get past. Source: am a parent.
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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by mike_hearn on Sunday February 01, 2026 @05:51AM (#46845212)
They do work. You may not feel they work perfectly, but government mandated ID verification on social media will work far worse and be far more coarse grained. You don't even have any control with government regulation, so being "coarse grained" isn't even worth discussing because with one-size-fits-all laws imposed by the providers there is no grain.
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