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EU considers new social media restrictions for children

The European Union is expected to restrict access to social media for children and teenagers. It comes after a report into the harm constant access to screens is doing to the minds of young people. Bu

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How about pressuring corporates to regulate their algorithms and what people see on their feed?

Cuz the algorithm is specifically designed to keep you engaged, because your attention and views = money, corporates love and benefit from your late night scrolls, your lack of sleep, your dead attention span etc

some algorithms (like twitter under elon) are specifically designed to to show you outrageous and disgusting posts, even if you click "uninterested" or block accs that post this, because your angry replies and quotes= money
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the ban is not good, they should fix the platform design instead
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Ok how they will control the age?
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How about prosecuting the pedos and bullies instead?
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It's a trap.
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They need to ban it for adults as well because these are outlets are use by the wall to brainwash grown people to..
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To bad the cost of living is to exspensive for alot of kids to do all the extra activities they mention.