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BREAKING: Keir Starmer affirms that all minors under sixteen are prohibited from using social media. (lemmy.ml)

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Sir Keir Starmer has declared that social media use will be prohibited for all minors under sixteen.

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[–] Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dark Web social media here we come.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yes, but the goal is to make it difficult enough to access that its counter-narratives -- like gaza -- cease being part of the mainstream conversation.

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Good. This will be a good thing.

Uncontrolled social media has a lot of problems but pre-megacorp internet was at least one metric fuckton better than whatever this shit is we have now.