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The effectiveness of the social media ban for kids (europe.pub)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/privacy@programming.dev

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If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :)

Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in Australia still use it 🥳

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

Source: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf

Everybody knows that when you make laws banning teens from something they absolutely comply and aren't rebellious at ALL LMFAO

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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Damn fools. Don't they know that kids have all the time in the world to find a way around this shit?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 12 points 5 days ago

I'm sure Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are really broken up about a massive influx of ~~profit~~ users that shouldn't be there.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

Teens: well shit, must be good then.

[–] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But, but, we banned them! There's no possible way that kids could find their way out of the AOL Kids Zone!

[–] cm0002@europe.pub 5 points 5 days ago

AOL Kids Zone!