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Classical bingo to authoritarism
It's only to protect children It's only to protect against terrorism It's only to protect against rapist It's only to protect against murders It's only to protect against deterioration oups, it's everyone except the upper class
This is how personal data bills and fingerprint/adn collect bills have evolved
We did the same thing w cigarettes, and to cocaine in coca cola.
Kids brains aren't developed yet, give them a chance.
Social media is bad for kids because it amplifies social comparison and algorithm-driven validation, which can undermine self-esteem and mental health during critical stages of brain development. It also displaces real-world socialization and sleep while exposing kids to content and pressures they’re not developmentally equipped to process.
Yep. And it will be use for mass repression
Please expound upon mass repression so I/we can understand your concern.
Mass deportation, massive incarceration, war-crimes, political assassination, harassment of political dissidents, administrative detention. The Zeitgeist
Your arguing that limiting social media will facilitate those concerns. There is documented evidence that social media has facilitated genocide and is the a mass surveillance tool that reports to the government and sells our data to private military and intelligence agencies. I suggest that by not giving these data harvesting and social manipulation services our data will prevent your concerns.
The bill ask everyone for ID
I almost always give out my d when asked.
Cool, so could give it to me ?
Not every prohibition is bad.
There is a reason why we don't let kids under 18 make porn, for example, or are you saying that that too is authoritarianism?
Nobody said such things. I underline how the current state of surveillance has been allowed with this fallacious argument.