EDITORIAL. The release of the French Parliament's commission report on the psychological effects of TikTok on minors marks progress in the fight against the potential harmful impacts of social media on young people's mental health.
I’m all for regulating social media, problem being historically when regulation happens on the internet its for surveillance, not for children. Big tech has lined the pickets of politicians across the globe. Any child can get around UK and US ID laws by finding the right webpage, or using a VPN if they’re a bit older. Unless there’s a massive class shift in our near future we are NEVER going to see regulation that actually helps the parent. It will always be to oppress the lower classes. I understand where you’re coming from and I wish we lived in a world where that could work. Looking around though, I don’t think it ever will.
Power and money are easily the biggest goals and wants that lots of people have.
But I do (still) trust in the goodness of men.
I’d argue that e.g. an open source system could have a (more) benevolent cause and help someone with these problems without using data (gained) for profit.
No surveillance (or monitoring) and no data gathering means you cannot see how good/bad something (such as a behavior) is. And in such a situation it’s difficult to come up with tools to help, if there’s “no problem to give help to”.
(One can always self-monitor e.g. time spent in an app)
I’m all for regulating social media, problem being historically when regulation happens on the internet its for surveillance, not for children. Big tech has lined the pickets of politicians across the globe. Any child can get around UK and US ID laws by finding the right webpage, or using a VPN if they’re a bit older. Unless there’s a massive class shift in our near future we are NEVER going to see regulation that actually helps the parent. It will always be to oppress the lower classes. I understand where you’re coming from and I wish we lived in a world where that could work. Looking around though, I don’t think it ever will.
Power and money are easily the biggest goals and wants that lots of people have.
But I do (still) trust in the goodness of men.
I’d argue that e.g. an open source system could have a (more) benevolent cause and help someone with these problems without using data (gained) for profit.
No surveillance (or monitoring) and no data gathering means you cannot see how good/bad something (such as a behavior) is. And in such a situation it’s difficult to come up with tools to help, if there’s “no problem to give help to”.
(One can always self-monitor e.g. time spent in an app)