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  • Thank you for expanding more on this, it's gone a long way to helping me understand better.

    I still believe that social media, as it currently exists, is something which is harmful to children for reasons I laid out previously but connection and support are important.

    The perfect solution would be to disallow any kind of traditional social media outside of break times whilst bolstering better spaces for support and friendship both online and offline; the first part of that is definitely a symptom of the second but I'm not sure how to best solve that outside of direct community support and advocacy for such spaces.

  • I'm showing my age here - I was alone in school. I am neurodivergent and part of the LGBTQ+ community, both things that were not well understood or accepted when I was in school. The only brief pieces of support and connection I had was online needed to be on a PC as smartphones were simply not a thing.

    Are you saying that children today must have instant and immediate access to friends and like minded people online during school hours? The children I know (i.e. children within my family and the children of friends) don't have smartphones at school and are able to wait until break times or after school to socialise but they're also not American; is this a uniquely American issue?

  • A future is coming where it can just be your job to let an LLM observe your life 24/7… And that might be the only job available.

    Getting paid to play games, jack off, and shitpost but at what cost...

  • I could be incredibly wrong with this however it's my understanding that fascists equally to being shot whether it be by a 9mm or an assault rifle. Additionally, there are still mass shootings where far too many innocent people are dying with a notable lack of fascists being shot.

    I don't believe the justification of having AR-15s to shoot fascists is the worth the trade-off of dead children.

  • Sure, but the phones are the tools which are facilitating the harm and they're not necessary for a child to have in school. I'd even go far enough to say that no minor should have full unfettered access to a smartphone or the internet but this requires a level of involvement from parents.

  • Smartphones are the medium through which children are most oppressed through social media apps, poisoning their brains. Instagram and Facebook deliberately targeted young girls to make them feel like shit about their bodies, and engagement based algorithms (particularly YouTube) pumped harmful fascist ideas to young boys.

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