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"I'm not responsible for the wellbeing of my children, big tech is!" This kind of shit is how we get forced into having to use government IDs to use the internet. Some states already do it for porn. The danger isn't big tech, it's harassment that should be taken care of offline.
You want to regulate them go for it but what if they go for the internet as a whole and not just social media? Then what?
OH, SO, stalker calls me and tells me to end myself you mean I can’t get paid by Verizon? Bullshit! I should be protected. The KIIIIIDDDS should be protected!
Someone uses a bulletin board at a post office to post a picture of my kid with captions on it that cause my kid to feel depressed, I WANT LAWS! The person who is in charge of the post office? Straight to jail! Manufacturer of the bulletin board? YUP, prison! Company who made the paper? Everyone who works there should be locked up!
Now, back to reality.
Wherever humans can be social, there will be bad humans using that to hurt other humans. You’re right. It should start with the parents. We didn’t ban kids from using telephones and television. Some parents did. That’s their business.
Facebook should do the best they can to enforce their policies about minors being on the platform, but billions of people use Facebook. Billions. They can’t possibly be responsible for all of it.
I don’t like Facebook as a company, at all. Still though, we should do better to handle our homes and stop counting on outsiders to do it all for us.
I don't like Facebook, Twitter, any of those sites either nor do I use them but what I can't get over is that people demand action and I haven't seen any suggestions. Just a demand for change. The only thing that comes to mind in censoring messages/tweets but wow that would be a great way to kill the site.
Adults want a free, open experience for themselves but also want a safe, enclosed space for kids. In the same spot. So how do you differentiate between an adult and a kid reliably without an ID?
You can't. And it's why there will never be a solution. Kids will lie to get the adult freedom and then suffer the consequences be it mental or otherwise.
Letting your kid on the Internet without supervision is akin to giving them unlimited blank plane tickets. Yes they could experience some very enriching event but could and most likely will be left hurt and traumatized in an unfamiliar place.
But that kind of argument can go back to every generation for every sufficient advancement of media. "Without supervision your kids could watch something traumatizing on TV" i.e. horror movies, and I'm sure the same extends to the radio and even books. The world can be traumatizing but it isn't the world's responsibility to have kid-safe barriers on everything just in case.
That's my point. It's your kids not mine. Not my job to care for them irl and not my job to care for them on the Internet.