To all the parents defending this: you are responsible for your children and what they do.
Passing laws that affect all of us because you are too lazy and ineffectual to raise your children properly is unacceptable.
Passing laws that affect all of us because you are too lazy and ineffectual to raise your children properly is unacceptable.
Yes this is true parents are responsible for their kids but it's also true that the village a kid lives in actually influences the kid more than their parents. So it's up to the parents to choose a good village. If every village has the same global social media apps then obviously that's more difficult and not a pit of success. Keep in mind most parents also have a shitload of other stuff to do especially with inflation requiring two incomes to operate a household.
Individualist types don't seem to get the whole village thing at all. It's hyper-individualism with no acknowledgement that we DO affect other people with our actions. Pollute as much as you like, fly noisy planes, drive oversized killer-SUVs. Let every company do what it wants because free market competition and better technology, or something. We're actually social animals and our happiness has a lot to do with how we stack up socially. Hence if just one kid has a device the other kids get jealous and want to keep up; The obvious answer is to enforce a culture of no-phones. But that would take a some agreement so a individualists don't like it.
If you just disdain children in general, you can go ahead and say that instead.
And by prisoner's dilemma / double bind type phenomenon, such as being forced to choose between being a social outcast, or to be on social media. That double bind would not exist if you nuke the whole thing. The libertarian theory of the world does not have such phenomenon within its descriptive aperture.
because they don't know the consequences and the question that was asked was literally "should kids be banned from social media?". You can bet the opinion will shift when more and more sites demand age verification and sending government IDs to random websites. It will also be widened to more than just the big social media sites, let's not kid ourselves.
Stop delegating action to the individual.
Me and missus are full time employees, I do not have oversight to what my kid is doom-scrolling on his lunch break.
> Passing laws that affect all of us because you are too lazy and ineffectual to raise your children properly is unacceptable.
How does it affect you? Unless you are a corporate mouthpiece this does not affect you at all.
I do not want my kid to watch any degenerate pornography on his formative years just because some lobbyist wants to shove freemarketeering ideologies down our throats.