Just like how expecting people to recycle was bad policy.
Though I wouldn’t be opposed to there being statutory regulations against parents whose kids get addicted to these applications and end up self-deleting or causing harm to others, not unlike how we’re seeing the state start to go after parents who fail to secure their guns. But just trusting parents to parent isn’t an option anymore. There’s simply too much evidence of the harm these applications cause.
I have some sympathy with your view, but still downvoted because I refuse to accept it’s conclusion. Look at Japan, Scandinavia and many other countries where social responsibility still prevails. Throwing hands up and saying “well it’s just human nature” is the laziest get-out to avoid fixing the broken parts of ones own excessive, hedonistic culture.
It might be true that the ones that need to be convinced won’t listen to the argument itself. But we can start to re-empower more responsible citizens to impose shame - yes, fucking shame - on those that raise their kids and otherwise act irresponsibly in so many ways: the polluting shit they consume, the regimes they support with the subscriptions they pay for, the inefficient gas guzzlers they decide to drive off the forecourt. It needs checking.
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“It’s for the CHILDREN, you COMMIE!”
People keep repeating these platitudes as if digital products aren’t literally harmful to kids. (And purposefully designed that way.)
But okay.
Do your job as a fucking parent.
They don’t. That is why regulation is necessary.
Just like how expecting people to recycle was bad policy.
Though I wouldn’t be opposed to there being statutory regulations against parents whose kids get addicted to these applications and end up self-deleting or causing harm to others, not unlike how we’re seeing the state start to go after parents who fail to secure their guns. But just trusting parents to parent isn’t an option anymore. There’s simply too much evidence of the harm these applications cause.
I have some sympathy with your view, but still downvoted because I refuse to accept it’s conclusion. Look at Japan, Scandinavia and many other countries where social responsibility still prevails. Throwing hands up and saying “well it’s just human nature” is the laziest get-out to avoid fixing the broken parts of ones own excessive, hedonistic culture.
It might be true that the ones that need to be convinced won’t listen to the argument itself. But we can start to re-empower more responsible citizens to impose shame - yes, fucking shame - on those that raise their kids and otherwise act irresponsibly in so many ways: the polluting shit they consume, the regimes they support with the subscriptions they pay for, the inefficient gas guzzlers they decide to drive off the forecourt. It needs checking.
By all means, utilize the parental controls on your children’s devices to keep them away from harmful content.
But keep the government out of people’s personal devices, and stop attacking the basic concepts of anonymity, privacy, and data security.
This screams: “I don’t want to parent my kids, so let the government do it instead, and do it to me too along the way.”
Do you really not see how that takes away your own agency? Both in terms of raising your kids and your own privacy.
Please keep repeating this propaganda as if it were true.
Australian studies have shown that the social media ban is harmful for children.
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🙄Who uses “SJW” in 2026? At least call me woke or whatever.
Maybe money should be dumped into education and evidence-based science… instead of what people “feel”
thanks for putting such a big smile on my face, taking me back to a time of sjw’s.
your username is a perfect representation of your views on lemmy dawg.
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