"Pleasant for kids to use is the polar opposite of kids finding it a pleasure to use"
(Unfortunately I'm well aware that it won't last long, because social pressure is impossible to fight at individual scale)
The State is just the democratically organized emanation of Society. And believe it or not, humans are social animals.
Children haven’t changed.
Liking carrots doesn't negate your taste for ice cream.
When you make learning synonymous with fun people start to believe that if they aren't having fun they aren't learning. Which accounts I think for something that a lot of teachers at all levels have observed, kids are increasingly unable to learn if there's no immediate reward.
It's much worse than just greed, it's about attention. Fundamentally at this point, very few people, including adults are unable to accept boredom or lack of instant gratification. Commercial or non-commercial.
It’s ID verification.
Provide a solution which doesn’t require that, like some other top commenter did. Otherwise, you have already lost.
"I love the poorly educated"
- Some Guy
The primary difference is that back then there was strong parental supervision and guidance.
I don't want to be forced to doxx myself just because some parents can't control their children.
In Holland there's even ISPs that filter porn and stuff, like https://kliksafe.nl . They're used by ultra-religious conservative communities (calvinists). Even adults use it there.
I view this as a much better solution. The people that want it can do their blocking and the rest of us aren't bothered with verifications and stuff.
Personally I belong to the sex-positive movement which thinks diametrically opposite about such matters :)
If all ads were like this we wouldn't hate them.
And I don't think they will start. It's good advertising for Ycombinator (I'd never heard of them before) and it doesn't cost a fortune to run really. They have one employee (or maybe 2 now?) and it all runs on one physical server. It's not a meta with a huge workforce and offices and datacenters all over the world.
What makes this impossible is the scale that people assume you need to cater for. When you limit your population to a reasonable size then moderation is easy and everyone gets to know the expectations of the community.
Unfortunately we have built a world in which people can live stream terrorist attacks or child rape.
Ad driven online content is especially bad for kids. But let's not pretend the only way to find an alternative is to end the world.
The fact is the "bad" solution is popular because consumers say they care about these things but then in real life they act like they don't. If no one watched the problem would solve itself. Thus, I'm not sure the solution is even to be found in platforms, if parents are burned out or don't have ways to make better choices for their kids.
That's a reason for these laws, to essentially just take it out of people's hands.
I would rather have my kid watch nothing but AI slop then get even 30 seconds of FAUX news. Lost my father to actual brain rot, FUCK YOU NEWSCORP!