Google urges US lawmakers not to ban teenagers from social media.::San Francisco– Google has asked the US Congress not to ban teenagers from social media, urging lawmakers to drop problematic protections like age-verification technology. The tech giant released its ‘Legislative Framework to Protect Children and Teens Online’ that came as more lawmakers, like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), pushed for the Kids Online Safety Act, a …

  • Ace T'KenEnglish
    33·
    8 months ago

    Assuming the entirety of the rest of the world beyond social media doesn’t exist that is.

    • radix@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      8 months ago

      What world, when you don’t have money or privacy of your own? If there’s not a good queer alliance club at their school, they’re done for.

      • Ace T'KenEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        I mean, I’m 41 years old. My best friend in high school was gay. He talked about it with other friends, and I’m in a pretty right wing province.

        The internet is pretty far from the only place that you can discuss these things, and the kind of parents that aren’t going to give you the privacy to discuss also are definitely not the kind to just leave the internet alone and let you go crazy on it.

        You’re talking about extremely psychotic (and completely ineffectual methods of) helicopter parenting.