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Why limit it to adolescents? Social media has made everyone crazy as fuck.
Not Lemmy, of course. Everyone here is crazy for reasons unrelated to social media.
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Cool. It's just a window people will close and not care about. Try holding these companies accountable, fine them because we all know they don't care and it should be easy to collect massive amounts in fines...supply better education to people.
It’s something. After untold societal damage I’ll take something
Yeah cause it was real effective against cigarettes. How about you ban their ability to advertise? That at least did something.
One of the supporting arguments is literally that it was effective against cigarettes…
I know it's an anecdote but I work in retail and there is no shortage of people buying cigarettes. We have more types, flavors, and selections of ways to smoke yourself into the ground not a one who cares about the warning. I just personally think the advertising and making it look good was what actually pushed them onto new users. People know it'll kill you, what they need to forget is the lie that it's cool, yummy, or fun.
This isn’t aimed to stop everyone from using it, but to lower the number. There is no claim that warning labels have halted all sales of cigarettes, just that a correlation between the labels and fewer cigarettes exists. There may even be evidence that backs up causation, but I’m not familiar with the topic so can’t speak to it.
I'd say it created some social permission for the advertising restrictions to happen later. Worth doing, even if it's not going to be sufficient.
I think we have the social pressure for the advertising restrictions, the TikTok ban being a pretty interesting case on it's own, I'm just frustrated at the half-measure because as with smoking, the warning to stop will be as effective as asking a 17 year old if they're 18 before going to a porn site. What'll keep them off social media is not knowing it's there to begin with.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The measures should prevent platforms from collecting sensitive data from children and should restrict the use of features like push notifications, autoplay and infinite scroll, which prey on developing brains and contribute to excessive use.
And young people can build on teen-focused efforts like the Log Off movement and Wired Human to support one another in reforming their relationship with social media and navigating online environments safely.
And the federal Kids Online Health & Safety Task Force must continue its leadership in bringing together the best minds from inside and outside government to recommend changes that will make social media safer for our children.
After they talked about what they liked about social media — a way to stay in touch with old friends, find communities of shared identity and express themselves creatively — a young woman named Tina raised her hand.
One by one, they spoke about their experiences with social media: the endless comparison with other people that shredded their self-esteem, the feeling of being addicted and unable to set limits and the difficulty having real conversations on platforms that too often fostered outrage and bullying.
Faced with high levels of car-accident-related deaths in the mid- to late 20th century, lawmakers successfully demanded seatbelts, airbags, crash testing and a host of other measures that ultimately made cars safer.
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