Of course, another country “thinking of the children”, censoring them and taking away their free speech.
Don’t. Nepal tried that, and now its new government has been elected over discord.
Good for them! I hope Germany will do this too. I don’t want the next generation to become brainwashed doomscrollers. We also don’t let kids enter casinos or consume addictive drugs, they can decide freely once they are fully grown up.
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If the government really wanted to protect children they would ban smartphones for children, as without social media a smartphone is almost useless. Also they could add a course in school about protection on the internet. What they are doing now is an obvious attempt to gain more control over the citizens.
Great
In other news, under 16 year olds in Greece are developing a workaround to social media restrictions
Guess how they control it.
By Identifying every user.
End of free speech and a step closer to a police state.
Based
Wow, how dystopian.
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Why is no one targeting the algorithms? First good step
Seeing what it does to kids these days: yes do it! Grew up without social media and super happy about that
I’m not sure to feel about this. One the one hand, the article mentions following in Australia’s footsteps, and that country banned *YouTube* for under-16s which is in my opinion ridiculous. On the other hand, this seems to be parent-focused as it will implement a national app for parents to manage what their kids can do, and that I agree with.
Or better ban social media for adults.
Do it
Or… The state could just stay way from how parents raise children? Or, punish them in some way instead of ruining it for everyone?
Whether we like it or not, we live in a digital world now. Social media is unfortunately an ingrained part of people’s lives and communication. You cannot ban it, it won’t work.
Alcohol is also prohibited until a certain age
They understood the problem and are brave enough to solve it.
Alright. But how exactly would they implement the law? Somehow I think we all suspect it
Since it worked sooo well for Nepal…
Do it
This would be a good idea.
That’s why it won’t happen.
I’m surprised everyone is against it, I would support this if they don’t do ID verification. There is no way I support my kids doing social medias before 13 or 15yo.
It would be more clear for the parents that social medias are no good for the youngest, they wouldn’t be able to use them at school or getting too deep into it.
Good job, Greece!
I would be OK with banning social media for those over 16. Algorithmically driven social media are a cancer to society. They are what got us to the so called “leader of the free world” claiming that tylenol is the cause for autism.
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Of course, another country “thinking of the children”, censoring them and taking away their free speech.
Don’t. Nepal tried that, and now its new government has been elected over discord.
Good for them! I hope Germany will do this too. I don’t want the next generation to become brainwashed doomscrollers. We also don’t let kids enter casinos or consume addictive drugs, they can decide freely once they are fully grown up.
Мъдро
If the government really wanted to protect children they would ban smartphones for children, as without social media a smartphone is almost useless. Also they could add a course in school about protection on the internet. What they are doing now is an obvious attempt to gain more control over the citizens.
Great
In other news, under 16 year olds in Greece are developing a workaround to social media restrictions
Guess how they control it.
By Identifying every user.
End of free speech and a step closer to a police state.
Based
Wow, how dystopian.
[deleted]
Why is no one targeting the algorithms? First good step
Seeing what it does to kids these days: yes do it! Grew up without social media and super happy about that
I’m not sure to feel about this. One the one hand, the article mentions following in Australia’s footsteps, and that country banned *YouTube* for under-16s which is in my opinion ridiculous. On the other hand, this seems to be parent-focused as it will implement a national app for parents to manage what their kids can do, and that I agree with.
Or better ban social media for adults.
Do it
Or… The state could just stay way from how parents raise children? Or, punish them in some way instead of ruining it for everyone?
Whether we like it or not, we live in a digital world now. Social media is unfortunately an ingrained part of people’s lives and communication. You cannot ban it, it won’t work.
Alcohol is also prohibited until a certain age
They understood the problem and are brave enough to solve it.
Alright. But how exactly would they implement the law? Somehow I think we all suspect it
Since it worked sooo well for Nepal…
Do it
This would be a good idea.
That’s why it won’t happen.
I’m surprised everyone is against it, I would support this if they don’t do ID verification. There is no way I support my kids doing social medias before 13 or 15yo.
It would be more clear for the parents that social medias are no good for the youngest, they wouldn’t be able to use them at school or getting too deep into it.
Good job, Greece!
I would be OK with banning social media for those over 16. Algorithmically driven social media are a cancer to society. They are what got us to the so called “leader of the free world” claiming that tylenol is the cause for autism.
This is the way and not chat control
That should be against human rights, lol
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