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"For the children" tech laws should all be abolished. Why should I be burdened because you can't be bothered to raise your own damned kids properly?
You're right, because kids have been shown to listen to the parents all the time and have never had problems handling adult situations when their parents aren't around 100% of the time. Even amazing parents raise kids who do stupid shit. And once these amazing parents aren't around their kid 100% of the time, those kids are still kids and will make bad decisions. This is especially true when it is something that literally every person around them is doing (adults, kids, friends, celebrities).
We all did dumb shit as kids, but tech wasnt anywhere near what it is now.
These platforms need to be punished and held to account for the pervasive technology they have designed for profit, these things (FB, insta. Tiktok etc) shouldnt be able to exist in the first place in their current state. There were no guard rails put in place - just like the flood of AI, technology moves so much quicker than legislation can keep up and companys do really shitty things with that.
I believe it starts at a parenting level, but it's much more difficult to manage these days compared to 20 years ago. Age verification bullshit is not the answer but parents need to be given some form of help againt these fuckers and their incredibly easy to access addiction machines.