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Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16
(www.goodmorningamerica.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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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.
Good, the kids could use the tech experience
They also may have run the numbers and decided that social media teaches more kids to accept people regardless of race, gender, sexuality or neurotypicality than it trains to be far-right xenophobic dogshit.
I can't really think of any other reason they'd do this. They don't do anything unless it's in their self interest.
spot-on observation. always follow the money