I can't imagine the effort that moderating a project like that would require, I suspect that the ongoing efforts to address fediverse moderation will need to progress a great deal more before a project like that becomes viable (unfortunately)
Kids should NOT be on social media.
Absolutely not. Kids should be kept away from social media as it exists now. Frankly, kids need to be supervised on the Internet as a whole, because there's so much dangerous shit out there to hurt them.
Yeah but what do you want the kids to interact with? There's a lot of sfw stuff like politics and hate speech I don't want kids to be near of.
Kids having unsupervised access to internet is just a bad idea in my opinion, no matter safe you try to make it.
Also the moderation issue someone pointed here.
I like the parental control idea of yours, because of this reason. Atleast it helps to certain degree.
Raising children without involving them in politics is terribly cruel. Children are the future and will need to live in the world we create, so they're the most important people to involve in the political decision making process. Greta Thunberg knows that.
That only sounds good until you realise this political exposure is also the reason children are going the andrew tate route. It's easier to influence children than it is to adults, and my point still stands, neither of these things must be shown to children without adult supervision atleast.
The only reason the human species evolved language is for political organisation. Kids need politics to thrive. We have examples of kids who were raised without politics like Genie and they were severely intellectually stunted. Politics is as fundamental to the human condition as breathing.
She’s not glued to tech bullshit and you don’t need tech bullshit to inform kids on politics
If anything, having kids sucked into online bullshit will dramatically reduce their political engagement and just turn them into another depressed and apathetic tech consumer
Issues surrounding queer rights are deeply political, and also very important to expose to developing minds. Young people need to know about gay, bi, ace, trans, nonbinary, and intersex identities so they can accept and advocate for themselves. Hiding information on gender dysphoria from teenagers who are going through puberty is abuse. And kids also need to be aware of the discrimination and legal challenges they can face as a queer person, so they can make an informed choice about whether and when to come out of the closet. They also need opportunities to advocate for themselves online and to comment on current events, so that their voices are heard by the people in power. We cannot let adults completely control the narrative on issues like puberty blockers, we need to hear from children who are living these stories.
I’m not sure any of those things require social media services
Especially when irl social media services for kids mostly result in interpersonal abuses and right wing fomentation (look into the discord child sex abuse and terrorism problems)
Open access to quality information does not need to be intertwined with public social media and everything we’re seeing technology do to children is harmful
I think that could get really expensive. Also pedo's have a habit of getting into trusted authority, how do you keep them out? They can't even get those people out of the office of the president of the US.
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