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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] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How so? Genuinely asking.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The act in question is all but explicitly about banning lgbt content online, especially for kids. It will leave vulnerable kids with 0 ways to discuss their sexual orientation, gender, etc in a safe space away from their parents.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Assuming the entirety of the rest of the world beyond social media doesn't exist that is.

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

What world, when you don't have money or privacy of your own? If there's not a good queer alliance club at their school, they're done for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean, I'm 41 years old. My best friend in high school was gay. He talked about it with other friends, and I'm in a pretty right wing province.

The internet is pretty far from the only place that you can discuss these things, and the kind of parents that aren't going to give you the privacy to discuss also are definitely not the kind to just leave the internet alone and let you go crazy on it.

You're talking about extremely psychotic (and completely ineffectual methods of) helicopter parenting.

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

Can't get em addicted as easily

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Addicted to what? Being able to be able to discuss lgbt topics online where their parents won't beat them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I mean that short cycle dopamine that all apps are pushing towards like its the new micro transaction.

LGBT safe spaces are amazing, but aren't representative of 100% of online content

EDIT: I didn't read the article don't come at me I'm stupid n lazy, if its just another hidden homophobic law then fuck that, but IG you can't expect anything of lawmakers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

EDIT: I didn’t read the article don’t come at me I’m stupid n lazy, if its just another hidden homophobic law then fuck that, but IG you can’t expect anything of lawmakers

I wonder how these lawmakers get away with passing their homophobic laws

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In my defense I'm not even american