How is this even a question?
Of course we should ban under 16s from social media you fools!
It is crack cocaine for the brain!
They are insanely addictive attention harvesters using psychologically attuned hate algorithms that feed neurosis and depression.
These social media networks have been built by people whose goal is unregulated profit via never ending attention, they enslave adults, they are mutating young people.
Why are we all such slaves to corporations?
Why do we allow them to sell highly addictive products that are bad for us with zero regulation?
Why do you all take a corporations interests as your own?
How are you this stupid?
Stop these rich billionaires selling a product that is damaging your children you morons!
Stop handing your children to parasitic corporations that feed on harm for profit.
It should be R18, like pornography.
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The only way to do this and make it work is to implement a National Identity system. About time, too.
And this is exactly why we oppose this. There is safety in relative anonymity online.
You are mistaken. There is no safety in anonymity when oppression is at the aggregate level.
Anonymity protects you from doxing, witch hunts, and people who don’t have the surveillance resources of the state, and only idiots will surrender that by choice. I value my job and my family’s safety and I don’t want to endanger either because someone doesn’t like my opinion online.
Wow! Yes!. That will make ACT look like dealers….Sometimes Seymour is a real idiot.
Sometimes?
I entertain the idea but am waiting for more evidence. Y’know, like whatshername should have aboot the ferries.
It’ll work as well as prohibition did.
banning just social media wont work, too easy to get around.
we would be better off to ban under 16s from having smartphones, let them have a good old nokia instead.
ban smartphones for u16, social media ban will never work.