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Would you support laws that age-restricted smartphones, social media, etc?
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:13 pm
You don’t have to look hard to find a child who’s young life has been derailed by the stuff. I’ve known of two under the age of 14 who have been crushed by ill-advised activity in the past week.
How many awful behaviors in society have spiked in correlation with the increased connectivity?
Bullying
Depression
Child Suicide
Porn Addiction
Political Brainwashing (both sides)
Just an iPhone/iPad gives a young child the power to run a fully functional media outlet.
What are the pros to this?
How many awful behaviors in society have spiked in correlation with the increased connectivity?
Bullying
Depression
Child Suicide
Porn Addiction
Political Brainwashing (both sides)
Just an iPhone/iPad gives a young child the power to run a fully functional media outlet.
What are the pros to this?
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Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:14 pm to white beans
We need less government control, not more
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:14 pm to white beans
100%
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:14 pm to UncleRuckus
I used to feel that way but our society has become so stupid that I don’t think that as much now…
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:15 pm to UncleRuckus
Should we lift the drinking age completely or let just anyone drive a car or motorcycle?
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:17 pm to UncleRuckus
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We need less government control, not more
Freedom is hard; the freedom to fail, can be pretty scary-- but it has to be there.
We've largely forgotten that, and are ready to nanny people rather than make them grow up.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:17 pm to white beans
It’s not the governments job to act as a father figure. Let the parents deal with it
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:17 pm to white beans
I’ll settle for Apple allowing parental controls apps that actually prevent usage.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:18 pm to white beans
How about parents be parents and monitor their kids’ shite?
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:18 pm to white beans
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Should we lift the drinking age completely or let just anyone drive a car or motorcycle?
That’s an incredibly bad point you think you’re making. A parent decides when their child gets to use smartphones. It’s extremely easy to keep a child off a smartphone or social media. But they damn sure can’t let their child start driving at 5.
ETA: You’re entire argument is because government regulates some things they should regulate everything. It’s a terrible argument.
This post was edited on 10/3/23 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:18 pm to white beans
I'd like to see parents acting like fricking adults and parenting their children.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:19 pm to white beans
It should be a parent's job to restrict what their child is exposed to or apps downloaded. . When kids pay for their own service and equipment, they can choose. No need to have the government parent what apps are on Jr's phone.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:19 pm to white beans
There already is a law, it's called COPPA.
Not accurate. Parents that let the kids download whatever they want from the app store are the problem.
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Rule Summary
COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.
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Just an iPhone/iPad
Not accurate. Parents that let the kids download whatever they want from the app store are the problem.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:22 pm to white beans
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Would you support laws
No
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:22 pm to white beans
No.
Parents shold try and actually be parents. I don't need the government to do that for me.
Parents shold try and actually be parents. I don't need the government to do that for me.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:23 pm to white beans
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Should we lift the drinking age completely or let just anyone drive a car or motorcycle?
Small government absolutists often conflate limitations on adults with reasonable limitations on children. It is easy to say no to any limitations or regulations it is difficult to design reasonable limitations/regulations so many just take the easy route.
That being said the cat is out of the bag and children by and large are tech savvy enough to end run any limitations put in place.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:23 pm to white beans
Yes
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:24 pm to white beans
I agree that kids should be protected from the ills of social media, but the protection should come from the home not your state Capitol or D.C..
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:24 pm to UncleRuckus
I get the gut instinct, but I think it’s misplaced here.
As long as government sets the same standards for everyone (which obviously very rarely happens, but it can happen), then there’s nothing wrong with setting appropriate rules to guide moral behavior. We’ve agreed to plenty of these government rules such as ‘you can’t murder people’. I’d argue that is a very appropriate application of government control.
Now social media use clearly isn’t as obvious in the universality of its immorality as murder. But at least from the perspective of ‘oppose all instances of government rule-setting’, I offer it up only as an obvious counter-example. It’s okay for government to control our ability to do things which are nearly universally regarded as bad, so long as that control is applied equally across all people
As long as government sets the same standards for everyone (which obviously very rarely happens, but it can happen), then there’s nothing wrong with setting appropriate rules to guide moral behavior. We’ve agreed to plenty of these government rules such as ‘you can’t murder people’. I’d argue that is a very appropriate application of government control.
Now social media use clearly isn’t as obvious in the universality of its immorality as murder. But at least from the perspective of ‘oppose all instances of government rule-setting’, I offer it up only as an obvious counter-example. It’s okay for government to control our ability to do things which are nearly universally regarded as bad, so long as that control is applied equally across all people
Posted on 10/3/23 at 4:24 pm to white beans
Hell no
That’s the parents job
That’s the parents job
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