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- I've said in several threads not to try to ban teens. All it takes is one of them to figure out bypasses. They and all their friends will bypass restrictions and they will teach them to small children. Perhaps this was intentional.
Something closer to an effective methodology would be to pick a date in the future and require small children that would be ages 0 through 9 on that date to have child accounts on their devices that enforces local parental controls. Offer courses to parents that help guide them through this process including conversations to have with the child. Give the child a path forward towards being trusted as a young adult. When they show signs of maturity, responsibility and ability to deal with "the internet(c)" and all that comes with it, give them an unrestricted account. By the time they are teen it is likely they will have an unrestricted account and will know how to deal with the pressures of society and all the trashy unstable humans and manipulative AI contained within.
Both public and private schools need to have courses on how to identify and deal with trolls, unstables, psychopaths, sociopaths, groomers, bullies, NGO's, marketing organizations, etc... This should start around age 7 (agōgē) and the child must be battle hardened against most internet threats by age 12 in addition to learning how to form friend groups to deal with bullies. I expect society to step it up.
This would also buy time for device, OS, app developers to ensure there is a solid sand-boxed environment for restricted accounts. i.e. The best pen-testers can't troll, be trolled or goon.
by Bender - Shift the burden to the multibillion-dollar transnational tech companies. If an Aussie child is found to have an account, they get hit with a fine. If it’s still up thirty days later, another fine. Something tells me they’ll figure it out.
This leaves a hole for social media in unresponsive jurisdictions. But for the major American and Chinese companies—the current worst offenders when it comes to harming kids for profit—this should work.
- More than eight in 10 Australian teens remain on social media despite the country's world-first ban introduced last year.by asdefghyk
- Well, this can be interpreted as a reason to give up, but if it has any marginal improvement it can also be taken as a reason to try harder.
Imo it’s actually good to run large experiments like these.
by zug_zug - If there is no provision for fining the social-media companies, the law will be ineffective.
- I'm shocked...
You cannot easily regulate a generation that understands technology better than the regulators do.
by Dfol - While most regulators do not seem to demonstrate the slightest understanding of technology, my experience is that young people have incredibly low understanding of technology.
They have been using simplified overly abstracted systems their entire lives. When I teach an HTML class the first thing I have to do is teach most of them the meaning of “save a file to a folder on the desktop”. A majority of the class will have no idea what any of that means.
If you’ve been using chromebooks or tablets your whole life, you really don’t know much about computers at all.
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