> However, Johannes Schätzl, the digital policy spokesperson from the Social Democrats, Merz’s centre-left coalition partners, said he would be against an outright ban, calling for effective controls by the platforms themselves.
He said that while social media posed risks for young people, it also opened up opportunities for participation and opinion forming. He said social media platforms had to regulate their business models to provide proper protection for young people, with clear safeguards and bans on aggressive algorithmic recommendation systems for minors.
“Against this background, I do not currently consider a blanket ban on social media for under-16s to be effective,” he told Reuters.
Fuck the social media ban under 16.
It’s against privacy, digital rights and freedom of speech. Please do NOT support this. You’ll never be able to suppress the freedom and voice of the youth!
Grandma and Grandpa can continue to be radicalised, of course.
Fix the algo issue or don’t, shoving out half arsed bans won’t change a damn thing. Except teach some young people how to circumvent your bullshit barriers a little earlier than usual.
> Bild newspaper said the local CDU party from the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein had filed a motion to be discussed at the party’s upcoming national conference on February 20-21. The CDU is the largest party in Germany’s coalition government that also includes the centre-left SPD.
> “A statutory minimum age of 16 for open platforms, accompanied by mandatory age verification, sets a clear protective boundary and takes into account the special developmental needs of young people,” Bild quoted the motion as saying.
So the CDU wants to require mass violations of user privacy. I would have thought that Germany of all places would care about protecting privacy, considering their history.
A ban does not work. we’ve seen that already in england and australia. kids are not dumb. it takes them 5 minutes.
what we need is a regulation of the algorithms. we need to stop those hate engaging bubbles we created.
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> However, Johannes Schätzl, the digital policy spokesperson from the Social Democrats, Merz’s centre-left coalition partners, said he would be against an outright ban, calling for effective controls by the platforms themselves.
He said that while social media posed risks for young people, it also opened up opportunities for participation and opinion forming. He said social media platforms had to regulate their business models to provide proper protection for young people, with clear safeguards and bans on aggressive algorithmic recommendation systems for minors.
“Against this background, I do not currently consider a blanket ban on social media for under-16s to be effective,” he told Reuters.
Fuck the social media ban under 16.
It’s against privacy, digital rights and freedom of speech. Please do NOT support this. You’ll never be able to suppress the freedom and voice of the youth!
Grandma and Grandpa can continue to be radicalised, of course.
Fix the algo issue or don’t, shoving out half arsed bans won’t change a damn thing. Except teach some young people how to circumvent your bullshit barriers a little earlier than usual.
> Bild newspaper said the local CDU party from the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein had filed a motion to be discussed at the party’s upcoming national conference on February 20-21. The CDU is the largest party in Germany’s coalition government that also includes the centre-left SPD.
> “A statutory minimum age of 16 for open platforms, accompanied by mandatory age verification, sets a clear protective boundary and takes into account the special developmental needs of young people,” Bild quoted the motion as saying.
So the CDU wants to require mass violations of user privacy. I would have thought that Germany of all places would care about protecting privacy, considering their history.
A ban does not work. we’ve seen that already in england and australia. kids are not dumb. it takes them 5 minutes.
what we need is a regulation of the algorithms. we need to stop those hate engaging bubbles we created.