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Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says (www.politico.eu)

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Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.

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[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In most countries, governments protect citizen rights in 'public' or governmental spaces. Private spaces, like those owned by corporations are subject to far fewer protections.

As the world has grown more developed and more privatized, what is the worth of your rights, if nearly everywhere is now considered a private space and thus not subject to those rights?

I think part of a government's job should be ensuring that 'public' spaces still exist and that they exist in the forms and mediums most relevant to the culture and technology of the day.

The internet needs spaces that our rights are fully present for and that aren't subject to the whims of a private corporation.

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

The internet needs spaces that our rights are fully present for and that aren’t subject to the whims of a private corporation.

Exactly. Websites like Reddit and Facebook have gobbled up a huge part of the internet and are essentially the virtual public space. I got banned from Reddit for bullshit reasons and there is absolutly no recourse. Appeals are just closed without anyone really looking at them. Making a new account is next to impossible.