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Finland looks to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)

submitted 1 week ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They probably won't / can't ban small federated social media like ours. Kids who really want to hang out on socials ought to crawl onto the Fediverse. Like we did on forums at the pre-social media stage of the internet.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

with guardian supervision, of course