This bill must be funded by VPN services because anyone who thinks teens won’t figure out a workaround has never tried to stop teens from anything. Disobeying is what they do on an evolutionary level.
Also using sites such as “This Person Doesn’t Exist” to generate am AI pic of a human could be used for profile pics.
You can make an instagram account fine with bing dall-e too.
Sounds totally enforceable!
For once Florida is doing something good.
At least it would be if they weren’t simply doing this to prevent kids from becoming more informed.
Eh… yes and no. On the one hand, kids are undoubtedly addicted to social media, and their screen time should be limited for the sake of their mental health.
On the other hand, this is absolutely not going to limit most kids time on social media. They aren’t idiots, and some of them are (properly) tech savvy. Meaning a bunch of kids are going to find an easy workaround, and spread that info around.
And this is almost certainly going to result in an ID requirement similar to the laws requiring ID for porn sites in certain companies. And unlike PornHub, I don’t trust that Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or the others are going to actually have integrity when it comes to ID laws.
Solution: nobody should be on social media.
Lemmy is social media… any site we communicate through is social media, even old style forums are social media. Hell, even Stack Exchange could be considered social media. Should those be banned?
I didn’t say they should be banned. People just shouldn’t be on them. It’s bad for mental health. It’s like smoking but for your brain.
Eh… social media isn’t harmful on its own in moderation. It’s companies that game the system against their users to feedback loop rage and hate that’s the real issue.
Though the addiction is real af, I do admit that.
what a fucking dogshit state. not that social media is good for anyone, but restricting kids from one of their main forms of communication / news / outlet to the world is just designed to be obnoxious.
even best case scenario, active malice aside, these people somehow have zero memory of what it was like to be a kid; having to wake up for school at 6am and do endless homework for no material benefit, and now this
Wow, broken clock and all that.
Stopped clock, a broken clock may never be right.
Bah they’ll just do it in secret instead of openly.
Internet too dangerous. Florida, just ban it entirely, just to be extra safe.
How?
Waiting to see how these apps do the malicious compliance thing. Because I think that’s probably what’s going to happen.
