An Angus Reid survey says three-quarters of more than 4,000 respondents are in favour of a ban like the one in Australia, where youth under 16 are prevented from setting up accounts on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads.
An Angus Reid survey says three-quarters of more than 4,000 respondents are in favour of a ban like the one in Australia, where youth under 16 are prevented from setting up accounts on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads.
To me, it’s more regulating the behaviour of people than regulating the developers of intentionally addictive and intentionally poorly-moderated systems.
The big hegemonic tech platforms, as they currently exist, are not just harmful to adolescents, they’re harmful to society as a whole.
I also don’t enjoy the prospect of how a ban like this might be implemented in terms of age and identity verification, since I expect it’s going look like “hand the data brokers even more of your personal data, they pinky-swear they’ll only use it to comply with the law”.