Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube
Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …
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Another country bringing age verification.
I wonder why they lock on youtube and ignore Facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc.
pretty sure they don't, those last things are already (or will be?) banned for young people in Australia :(
If I hadn't had the Internet growing up, I would have 0 (zero) positive memories of my preteen and teenage years. People who want to take that away from future generations are truly pure evil. I have no other words.
Not that I'm for any bans on social media
i can see why from my personal experience. Even back in like 2014 I viewed YouTube as home to crackpot conspiracy theorists because of friend's I'd seen go down YouTube rabbit holes and pretty much go crazy. Facebook and YouTube. Facebook was home to stupid image macros of stupid conspiracy theories. YouTube for crazy hyper edited conspiracy nut videos. YouTube where someone wants your email or number so they can send you a video you should watch and you learn the person you met is crazy
To this day other social media platforms have cycled in and out as conspiracy theorist and school shooters favorite platform while YouTube has never cycled out since it enabled anyone to upload video
Instagram has always been the self hate/image problems/terrible life planning thinking life after your 20s is over then a person gets to 30 and realize they actually want to have happy next 30 years too and they shouldn't have spent all their money and time chasing dreams they made each day watching other people on Instagram. 6th graders with skin care routines and wanting to show off a lavish lifestyle at like 11 years old, that's Instagram. Also short form Instagram get rich quick schemes and stupid harmful challenges are just as bad of a problem on Instagram and YouTube as they are on TikTok. Before those terrible challenges was based out of Twitter+YouTube.
Twitters it's own weird trending towards underworld now rather than mainstream. Maybe it's like a far less popular Facebook where it's becoming more and more for old people but people don't view it as a basic social media to keep in basic touch with distant people like Facebook
YouTube and Instagram are the worst to me. Facebook used to be worse than Instagram and YouTube but YouTube and Instagram have gotten more important and worse while Facebook has become less important over time while probably being just as bad as before
The solution to that is media literacy, not bans. But of course one of those two is a lot easier than the other.
But unlike media literacy, bans give the government a pretext to demand ID from everyone using the internet, and thereby increase surveillance of the population. This year is evidently the year when they've all decided to do it.
What are you talking about, all of those are banned.
