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Age limits really are weird and ineffective solutions.
It allows politicians to pretend they're doing something. Real solutions would piss off the people who own them. As the meme implies.
Exactly, ban the addictive algorithms and the problem will fix itself and will be better because after completing 18 years you don't magically become immune to it.
How else do you propose removing threats to developing minds such as addicting behaviors like gambling? The effects of social media also require a bit of scrutiny, as does the accessibility of unhealthy porn normalization.
I really wish there were a way to reel these things in without giving up privacy and that we could trust those in power to be erring on the side of freedom in their efforts. The digital world is ubiquitous and access to it generally unfettered and young minds aren’t necessarily ready for what they find.
Parenting? Maybe?
Oh 100%! That’s getting harder and harder though as restricting phone access or use until the proper age generally low key ostracizes your child.
Proper parenting goes a long way but the effort required to choose the right hills to fight on is getting harder.
Well, I call them weird because it's not like harmful things suddenly stop being harmful when you turn 18. Why protect children but let adults fuck themselves with harmful and addictive behaviors? It's not like there's some switch being flipped where one's responsibility somehow fundamentally changes. For things with potential harms we should be asking ourselves what responsible engagement looks like at differing ages instead of drawing some arbitrary line in the sand between total ban and free-for-all. If we want social media and porn at all we should regulate good versions of those things.
And teaching people responsible engagement by banning any engagement with it outright is very ineffective. I think we should do the, admittedly much more difficult, work of scaffolded teaching. Engaging with the subject under guidance first before letting adults figure things out themselves. This would require people admitting however that teens like the same fucked up things adults do, which seems very scary to many people.