As social media usage has grown, it has heightened concerns about excessive screen time and its negative impact on child development and mental health.
Kids unter 15 can’t afford their own smartphones or computers. Parents are buying those. Parents are also providing the internet access as no provider accept you if you’re that underage. So parents are giving their kids unsupervised internet access without monitoring what they are doing?
There’s no way to enforce this without rolling out ID requirements for everybody. So parents not parenting their kids are leading to me having to upload my ID to fucking Facebook or even Lemmy? That is not ok and not a good way to do this
If those kids are getting 15, they are free to post on Elon Musk child porn-generating platform X? Why not force those companies to provide a safe space for everyone without a child-porn generator, without predators grooming children and without those platforms causing depression and suicides? Why should that be ok for 16 year old kids or even adults?
I still am kind of shocked how this is going: