oh I wasn't disagreeing with you, just pointing out the disingenuousness of "average wages". Stick musk and ten unemployed people in a room and the average person in there earns billions. We really need to kill that shit, it's used to infer that people are doing it rough due to "poor choices" rather than we're all middle class citizens absolutely taking it up the arse without lube

I think you're rather missing the point.

Yes, we have dark patterns, we have algorithms subtly coded and designed to drive us towards desired outcomes. These are the problems, and hitting the age of 16 won't make them go away. It won't make you less susceptible. That's explicitly why I referred to my inlaws falling down the batshit rabbit hole. There is no immunity from this

If you actually want to tackle the issue, you educate and you punish the behaviour. This utter crap of legislation does nothing to address the issue.

Yeah that 'average salary' is lies damned lies and statistics

The actual median personal income is around $58k

Jesus chriat they shoulda just slapped in one that said 'this is about monitoring citizens'

Moving countries here. just gonna post on this instance for nostalgia

Misinformation and snake oil salesmen have been issues since we invented society. This is the new iteration of it. Decrying it as the new biggest bad no one has ever seen before that must be slain is an absolute copout.

'They will get around it' - how is that a weak argument? I can guarantee you it will not be a small portion. The entire purported point of this is to 'protect' children from being exposed. If they're not protected whats the point? Why do this? To make yourself feel better and performative? That's the same fuckin' cancer in a new hat

As others have pointed out, the issue is media literacy, a blanket ban won't resolve that. And what good will unleashing a bunch of uneducated and unexposed sixteen year olds on reddit do anyway? We'll still have the same damned issue, only with older people. Hell, my in laws got sucked into the conspiracy cooker shit and they're hitting 70.

SM is attractive as it's a wider society to play in. The bad faith actors attract and prey on people who are receptive due to issues outside of SM, actual rl societal issues and banning kids will just add a delicious slip of forbidden fruit to the fuckers.

"are you over 16" clicks yes well your honour they clearly provided false data so it's not our farkin' problem.

because honestly what fucking 16 year old has a proof of age card

It's a wild overstep peddled in the name of "think of the children!!"

As any 12 year old with a porno mag will tell you, kids will get around this without even blinking. And the fun fact is that I, a grown arse adult three times their "acceptable" age to fuck around with the dangerous social media will coincidentally be asked to prove my age, full name, address to any comment I may make online and boy oh boy wait until I say something that disagrees with the obsidian order.

mark the names of the dumb cunts that yes'd

Pretty normal in vic. The heatwaves usually break with a storm, and always have. It's the intensity that's increasing

You can be intelligent and still stupid. Ask any owner of a ginger tom

He is uncomfortable when we are not about him