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    Il capo dei diritti umani mette in guardia dal vietare i social media ai bambini

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    1. Doggylife1379 on

      It feels a bit weird to be considered a human rights issue. They’ll have access to most of the web including news sites and all. I don’t know if banning will work, but the mental health of young people is clearly being affected by social media.

    2. ReddytoFlow on

      This is why people get tired of politicians. He says children have a right to the information they get from social media? Yeah is that the ring wing disinformation? The anti vaccine information? Fucking eejit!

    3. Hopeful-Vanilla-2800 on

      I would question this guy’s motives. I note there is no mention of any perceived benefits from children accessing social media. The reason there is no mention of benefits is because there are none.

    4. GarthODarth on

      It would honestly be great if we could make social media less toxic instead of banning it for children, but somehow regulating it properly is a bridge too far. Instead we have to give our ID to American surveillance firms to access exploitative algorithms we know are bad for us.

    5. rockyoudottxt on

      Social media bans are not about protecting kids. That’s simply the justification they are using. They want to build out the surveillance infrastructure. Within months of a single country doing this, everyone wants to do it. Despite the fact children have been using the internet for 30 years.

      The problem is the algorithms. They are literally designed to be addictive as a landmark court case today has also backed up. The likes of Meta are also spending billions on lobbying and astroturfing to shift the age check over to OS level, conveniently moving the responsibilities away from them.

      What we are going to get is your passport, pps, driving license being held perpetually by lowest bidder private companies. Brilliant stuff.

    6. KittenHasWares on

      Everythings been said to death on this topic from both sides, so I’ll just give a personal anecdote on it, as someone queer growing up in a household where my older brother (20 years older than me) said to me as a child “if you ever end up gay I’ll beat the fuck out of you”, among the usual struggles of being queer in school where kids can be cruel about differences, social media and being able to find friendly environments were a lifeline for someone like me.

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