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This is the problem: how do we ban social media for kids? First we have to know who are kids and who are adults. How do we do that? More tracking. More stored data. Pass. The real answer is to punish the people doing the harm. Throw Zuck in supermax and take away his company. Pichai, Nadella, Bezos. Cook. Huang. Altman. Hold them accountable for the crazy damage they've done to the earth and society.
Be a parent.
Give your kids a locked down device. Monitor their use use of unlocked devices (PCs/Laptops) at home. Talk to your kid's friend's parents, if your kid is using their devices you will find out and can deal with it accordingly.
Parents have been stopping kids from smoking and drinking, they can keep them off tiktik till they are in high school as well.
I think you missed my point. I'm saying that any "protect the kids" call is almost invariably followed up with an implied "By taking away more privacy and by stealing more data."
I didn't imply that you should be violating the privacy of kids any more than a parent is entitled to. Locking down a device and shoulder surfing your 10 year old is not violating human rights, it's keeping your kids safe from the firehose.
I'm not worried about kids' parents monitoring their kids' use. I'm aware that they are going to implement across the board ID for every damn website "to keep kids safe". Tracking everything I say in every platform I say it on is violating my human rights. Also, all these companies are American. They have zero right to any of my data. Ever.
I got news for you the parents where not stopping the kids from smoking and drinking.
I can tell you (not a parent, in IT for education) kids, like dinosaurs, find a way. It'd amaze you how clever they are at getting on devices. Hell, we have kids hacking staff accounts so regularly we just audit all the accounts for the usual kid haunts.
I don't see it. How is your system so lax that kids are hacking them weekly?
Did I say weekly? "So lax?" Do you know anything at all about our system? How do you know that I don't work in "Prison for 17 year old hackers"? How do you know that I'm not the only IT guy for an 11,000 person education system? We have a real cybersecurity problem, yes. But this may stagger your imagination, you don't know any of the details, so of course you assume we must be fully staffed, fully funded, dealing with little kids, and just incompetent.
How is your staff enrollment so lax that it can be done by any user?
Oh simple! I didn't proofread my post before posting! Autocorrect changed "hacking" to "having".
My question stands. A simple confirmation by a human when enrolling a new account or upgrading an existing account should be enough. How many legit new staff accounts are added in a week?
Okay, we're done.
Laws exist for smoking and drinking?
I'm not sure if you are still a child or never were one.
Absolutely but Canada can’t do that, and banning social media companies is political suicide
And more pressingly to the politicians, laws restricting them is portfolio suicide