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Google urges US lawmakers not to ban teenagers from social media. (indusbusinessjournal.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google urges US lawmakers not to ban teenagers from social media.::San Francisco– Google has asked the US Congress not to ban teenagers from social media, urging lawmakers to drop problematic protections like age-verification technology. The tech giant released its ‘Legislative Framework to Protect Children and Teens Online’ that came as more lawmakers, like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), pushed for the Kids Online Safety Act, a …

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (11 children)

While I'm not really that fond of the government telling people what websites they can and can't visit, this would probably be a net good for kids. The fact that Google is against probably means doubly so.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Yeah I’m not into the government limiting the internet at all. Also, sometimes the internet is a safe haven for people who are alone or have trouble with their peers. Anonymity can help also get things off your chest, and be yourself. Although the big social media players aren’t about anonymity.

Young pre-Autism me was helped greatly by the early internet and chat rooms. And adult me really is surviving socially online due to living in an area hostile to me and and indifferent at best. Discord, Matrix, and IRC have great communities that have made me feel welcome and share interests. I’d be completely isolated and alone without them.

But notice I didn’t say traditional social media. I don’t like algorithms manipulating and all the tracking.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah the obvious solution is to ban harvesting and storing of especially identifying data and the associated targeted ads etc but that will certainly never happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If violators go to prison, from ceo to developer, and it is enforced, then it would work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But that's counterintuitive to profit, so yeah, not gonna happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I agree

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