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CityPop@lemmy.today to World News@quokk.au · 17 days ago

Don’t ban teenagers from social media

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Don’t ban teenagers from social media

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CityPop@lemmy.today to World News@quokk.au · 17 days ago
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    16 days ago

    And at the same time people were saying that radio or television would destroy kid’s brains because they didn’t want rock n roll music and racially integrated TV shows getting to them. Lots of mistakes from the past to try to avoid repeating.

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      So, it’s safe to keep on playing Russian roulette because no one has died yet?

      The actual makers of tech make sure their own kids don’t use it, which is the best argument I can think of.

      https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/

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        You first have to define what social media is without meaning nearly everything. Forums already did all the social stuff. What they did not do was having an algorithm distribute content (except maybe newest firstor ‘hot’ first).

        We don’t need to ban social media, we need to enforce rules an serving content as far as I see it.

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