Authorities must effectively regulate social media instead of banning children and young people (www.amnesty.org)

submitted 6 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/australia@aussie.zone

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 20 points 6 days ago

Removing the benefits that social media brings will not achieve the government’s objective of improving young people’s lives, and ignores the fact that the harms extend beyond children and young people to marginalized people and groups. The best way to protect children and young people online is by protecting all users with stronger data protection laws and not personalizing feeds based on profiling.

Yes, 100%. I'm glad to see somebody with clout saying this. It's been bizarre to see the government acknowledge something as harmful and malicious, and then only keep kids away from it instead of trying to stop it from being harmful and malicious.

No profiling by default sounds pretty good. I'd also throw in "feed algorithms must be public"

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

“BuT wOn’T sOmEoNe ThInK oF tHe TeChBrOs!”

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