The Dutch government wants to ban “kidfluencers,” children under the age of 16 who make commercial content for social media, such as unboxing videos and videos by family vloggers. Children being systematically used as a revenue model is effectively child labor and must be treated as such, Minister Thierry Aartsen of Work & Participation said in a letter to parliament, RTL Nieuws reports.

  • nosuchanon
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    3 days ago

    Can we just skip some steps and band online advertising?

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
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      3 days ago

      Just advertising in general. I also don’t want my city to be plastered with stuff I am supposed to need

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        A whitelist for, like, a sign over you shop or a business webpage would be needed, but yes. In most cases, it’s pretty hard to justify advertising as a social good.