The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator.
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The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations. They must stop using predatory practices. And that's doubly important because those practices hurt adults and minors alike.
@gabrielesvelto
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Once upon a time we had safe spaces for children on the internet. We WELCOMED their interaction on sites like Club Penguin, Nickelodeon, Disney, and dozens of others.
But those spaces were deleted leaving only the 'adult' spaces for kids to explore. They have to lie about their age sometimes to gain access, and saying that shouldn't happen is disingenuous.
And the role of those sites has been usurped by Russian recruitment services.
Like in this thread : https://mastodon.social/@adrianhon/116696642949969646
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The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations. They must stop using predatory practices. And that's doubly important because those practices hurt adults and minors alike.
Exactly.
Don’t ban minor ps from social media bc it’s unsafe.
Make social media safe for everyone instead. -
The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations. They must stop using predatory practices. And that's doubly important because those practices hurt adults and minors alike.
@gabrielesvelto This! Exactly this!
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@xjix @mgorny yes, absolutely, but like with social media minors end up still having access to alcohol, tobacco and recreational drugs, only through illegal channels. It's one of those cases where a simple ban in absence of proper handling of the broader issue is just a convenient way for adults to ignore the problem instead of trying to fix its root causes.
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@xjix @mgorny yes, absolutely, but like with social media minors end up still having access to alcohol, tobacco and recreational drugs, only through illegal channels. It's one of those cases where a simple ban in absence of proper handling of the broader issue is just a convenient way for adults to ignore the problem instead of trying to fix its root causes.
@gabrielesvelto @xjix, precisely. I mean, bans for underage people make sense but *as a first step* towards solving the problem. Not some magical boundary "as soon as you're 18, it suddenly becomes fine", so just consume all the advertisement until then, so you're ready to become addict.
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The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations. They must stop using predatory practices. And that's doubly important because those practices hurt adults and minors alike.
@gabrielesvelto I keep saying the same.
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@gabrielesvelto But is exclusion from the torment nexus a punishment?
Like, should social media (in present form) exist at all?
Is there a non-harmful way to have a Facebook or an Instagram, etc.?
I don't think there is.
The goal should be to fix the actual problems, though. If politicians were introducing "protect kids by holding social networking companies accountable" legislation as often as they introduce "protect children by isolating them and introducing more surveillance" legislation, the corpos might have voluntarily created controls or at least better labeling by now.
The video game rating system is an example of an industry policing itself to avoid legislation. That's probably not the way to do social networking. The point is, back when government regulation meant something, just the threat was enough to get companies to do the needful.
That's where we need to be with this. Hold the perpetrators responsible. Saying "this is just how it is" is a little bit defeatist.
Kids need spaces to be themselves away from the eyes of their parents once they reach a certain level of maturity. All that shit is complicated and requires his parenting and a proper educational system to do well.
We have to keep pushing back on surveillance disguised as protecting kids, even if the alternative still sucks. I don't have "the answer". I just know that as an LGBTQIAS2 kid who didn't have access to those spaces (because they didn't exist yet), I was self-hating until my 30s when I finally found them. My awakening was ten years in the making on the Something Awful forums, a website known for infamous "goon meets", "do you have stairs in your house", Photoshop Phriday, Shmorky, tasteless memes, Zack Parsons' liminal horror, and Slenderman. It also had extremely active and diverse forums where I first met out LGBTQIAS2 people and learned that what I thought was normal was anything but. The site itself was not a safe space, but that forum was a lifeline.
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@gabrielesvelto @xjix, precisely. I mean, bans for underage people make sense but *as a first step* towards solving the problem. Not some magical boundary "as soon as you're 18, it suddenly becomes fine", so just consume all the advertisement until then, so you're ready to become addict.
Or we could just remove the incentive the corpos have to profit from minors, or ban the corpos out right, thus ending the real problem once and for all.
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@gabrielesvelto But is exclusion from the torment nexus a punishment?
Like, should social media (in present form) exist at all?
Is there a non-harmful way to have a Facebook or an Instagram, etc.?
I don't think there is.
@androcat @gabrielesvelto bitch if it hadn't existed I would not be here today
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@gabrielesvelto But is exclusion from the torment nexus a punishment?
Like, should social media (in present form) exist at all?
Is there a non-harmful way to have a Facebook or an Instagram, etc.?
I don't think there is.
@androcat I think we still all agree that age-verification laws are major bad, though, right?
Maybe they'll only apply to the huge corporate sites, at first, but remember: they're trying to force this crap into our operating systems now, including Linux. "First they blocked kids from accessing the big evil sites, but we didn't care because they were big and evil and kids shouldn't be getting addicted to them anyway."
...and, not to defend Big Tech Social, but some network effects mean some people really depend on them (which is itself a problem, yes).
I mean, there's definitely some discussion to be had here, but... let's be sure we all agree there's a problem, yeah?
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The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations. They must stop using predatory practices. And that's doubly important because those practices hurt adults and minors alike.
@gabrielesvelto +9001%
- That's why it's illegal to advertise tobacco and spirits to minors and the few advertising permissible has to feature a cast that is above 25.
- At least in Germany that is; Not shure if it's EU-wide tho.
Case in point: "Age Verification" is cyberfascist horseshite and a poor excuse to normalize both Tech-Illiteracy and Antisocial Media's unwillingness to properly moderate their shit.
#AgeVerification #Cyberfascism #TechIlliteracy #TechIlliterates #AntisocialMedia #SocialMedia #Moderation
- That's why it's illegal to advertise tobacco and spirits to minors and the few advertising permissible has to feature a cast that is above 25.
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@gabrielesvelto But is exclusion from the torment nexus a punishment?
Like, should social media (in present form) exist at all?
Is there a non-harmful way to have a Facebook or an Instagram, etc.?
I don't think there is.
@androcat @gabrielesvelto Um, it's called Mastodon.
Yes, the bans we're talking about on all the harmful things Facebook and the like do would render them completely and permanently unprofitable and would end them and we would be left with prosocial networking like we have here.
The way you get there is not by punishing young people and banning them from participation in the public life and information landscapes these platforms usurped.
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The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations. They must stop using predatory practices. And that's doubly important because those practices hurt adults and minors alike.
@gabrielesvelto Corporations are more people than people
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The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations. They must stop using predatory practices. And that's doubly important because those practices hurt adults and minors alike.
@gabrielesvelto The government & tech industry will ban children before putting in the effort to make parental controls that are actually useful.
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@androcat I think we still all agree that age-verification laws are major bad, though, right?
Maybe they'll only apply to the huge corporate sites, at first, but remember: they're trying to force this crap into our operating systems now, including Linux. "First they blocked kids from accessing the big evil sites, but we didn't care because they were big and evil and kids shouldn't be getting addicted to them anyway."
...and, not to defend Big Tech Social, but some network effects mean some people really depend on them (which is itself a problem, yes).
I mean, there's definitely some discussion to be had here, but... let's be sure we all agree there's a problem, yeah?
Oh, absolutely, Age Verification is just a massive ID theft, and absolutely nothing good about it.
It's just a little jarring to perceive a discourse of "How can we steal SoMe from the little darlings, like, that's abuse" (I know OP is not meant like that)
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@androcat @gabrielesvelto Um, it's called Mastodon.
Yes, the bans we're talking about on all the harmful things Facebook and the like do would render them completely and permanently unprofitable and would end them and we would be left with prosocial networking like we have here.
The way you get there is not by punishing young people and banning them from participation in the public life and information landscapes these platforms usurped.
I don't disagree.
Well, there's definitely harm on masto, also.
Like, zionists harassing palestinians under the protection of mods.
And all those places dedicated to harassment (kiwifarms, etc.)But overall, when people think "social media", they are not thinking of mastodon.
And the places they do think of should not exist in their present form.
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The goal should be to fix the actual problems, though. If politicians were introducing "protect kids by holding social networking companies accountable" legislation as often as they introduce "protect children by isolating them and introducing more surveillance" legislation, the corpos might have voluntarily created controls or at least better labeling by now.
The video game rating system is an example of an industry policing itself to avoid legislation. That's probably not the way to do social networking. The point is, back when government regulation meant something, just the threat was enough to get companies to do the needful.
That's where we need to be with this. Hold the perpetrators responsible. Saying "this is just how it is" is a little bit defeatist.
Kids need spaces to be themselves away from the eyes of their parents once they reach a certain level of maturity. All that shit is complicated and requires his parenting and a proper educational system to do well.
We have to keep pushing back on surveillance disguised as protecting kids, even if the alternative still sucks. I don't have "the answer". I just know that as an LGBTQIAS2 kid who didn't have access to those spaces (because they didn't exist yet), I was self-hating until my 30s when I finally found them. My awakening was ten years in the making on the Something Awful forums, a website known for infamous "goon meets", "do you have stairs in your house", Photoshop Phriday, Shmorky, tasteless memes, Zack Parsons' liminal horror, and Slenderman. It also had extremely active and diverse forums where I first met out LGBTQIAS2 people and learned that what I thought was normal was anything but. The site itself was not a safe space, but that forum was a lifeline.
Definitely.
We gotta hit all the problems.(and yea, age verification and "chat control" can go fuck off)
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I don't disagree.
Well, there's definitely harm on masto, also.
Like, zionists harassing palestinians under the protection of mods.
And all those places dedicated to harassment (kiwifarms, etc.)But overall, when people think "social media", they are not thinking of mastodon.
And the places they do think of should not exist in their present form.
@androcat @gabrielesvelto There are harms here, but the harms aren't the harms that come from capitalist social media platforms. They're things that are inherent to human interactions, that require active work to reduce/mitigate.
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@xjix @mgorny yes, absolutely, but like with social media minors end up still having access to alcohol, tobacco and recreational drugs, only through illegal channels. It's one of those cases where a simple ban in absence of proper handling of the broader issue is just a convenient way for adults to ignore the problem instead of trying to fix its root causes.
far from being banned from today's
primary source of information and
connection, children and everyone else need to learn these social skills, to think critically, to check multiple sources of different kinds, to question, query, look for the logical inconsistencies, to be able to act effectively
in the world we have made
