• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    People keep repeating these platitudes as if digital products aren’t literally harmful to kids. (And purposefully designed that way.)

    But okay.

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        6 hours ago

        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.

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      18 hours ago

      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.

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      19 hours ago

      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.

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      22 hours ago

      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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      17 hours ago

      You people keep repeating these platitudes as if there aren’t a lot of useful products sold that are literally harmful to kids. (And purposefully designed to not be save for children.)

      But okay.