• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Instead of regulating people, how about we regulate big tech and their predatory business practices instead.

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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      6 hours ago

      Right! You gotta stop it at the source. Not source being the way we interact, (phone/is) in taking the source of the issue… WHO creates the big addictive platform? Meta. Stop it there… If only it were so easy. Too bad there’s a lot of backdoor policies & negotiations going on with big tech’s influence.

    • brianpeiris@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      I think we have to do both. Bans/restrictions to prevent immediate harms (or at least attempt to), and regulation to prevent future harms.

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    Blanket social media bans for teenagers may do more harm than good. If the evidence doesn’t show social media is the main cause of the mental health crisis, pushing teens onto smaller, unregulated platforms could actually increase risks. Better digital literacy, parental involvement, and platform accountability are likely to be more effective than outright bans.

    • Richard
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      4 hours ago

      Low hanging and short term solutions are the one policians crave the most

  • realitista@lemmus.org
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    9 hours ago

    Would be a much more useful article if it focused on the data rather than her as a person. I got nothing useful from it.

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      2 hours ago

      Gotta stick to emotion, opinion and subjective, otherwise we might make progress with rationality.

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    8 hours ago

    she crashed her car and drank excessively as a teen, she says.

    She gave both her children smartphones when they turned 11 and let her daughter start using Snapchat at the same age.

    Yeah… that tracks.

  • fodor@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Who is “we”, as they say. Such headlines are always baitclick. Always.

  • magnue
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    8 hours ago

    TL;Dr

    Men are evil and should be exterminated, basically.