Post #1339089

2026-04-18 18:27 UTC

@interru@hooves.social @Karcsesz@equestria.social "This comes at a time when there are initiatives to ban access to social media entirely for children." Yes, but (for me) they missed the problem. They want to ban children and teens to access social platforms because the content shared is made to influence them and the feeds make them stuck on those platforms. Instead of requiring the social platforms to be less addictive (algorithmic feeds, endless scrolling, target ads, ...) and with better moderation, they prefer just to ban children to access them.

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@C_Chell@equestria.social 2026-04-18 18:37

RE: https://equestria.social/@C_Chell/114975076102785538 @interru @Karcsesz Also, some groups force to impose more strict filters (by age verification) on some +18 websites where the less worse solution was to install a parental control and let the parents filter for their children. Even if I still think educate children is largely better to help them to identify inappropriate content, because some parents can be too conservative (in religious term) and don't want their children to be educated on the things. Some want/prefer to block this kind of content instead let them understand/learn (even in school) just thinking their children are more "innocent" than they are really. (I was (not so) surprise when I discover in the navigation history of one of my little brother when he asking "how to extract a song from Youtube to put it on a MP3 player", to find another website starting by the same letters)

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