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No comments from kids. Mixed reactions from parents.
Based solely on parent feedback from the article it seems like this will most positively affect kids who enter preteen years after the ban and who never had access to social media before. Kids who got used to it and now lost access seem to be a mixed bag. Obviously no one actually knows effects on long term outcomes yet. I would have really liked to see what the kids themselves are saying.
what the kids themselves are saying.
What the kids themselves are saying, or what they're actually doing?
Self-reported behavior among teenagers is... inaccurate at best.
Locks only keep out honest people.
Yes, and the world is better for having locks.
These bans, first of all I'm certain they became an urgent issue to pass only after social media in the NATO aligned world turned sour on Israel, nothing gets passed so fast with near universal support unless it has to do with pushing the imperialism agenda without calling it imperialism. Geopolitics and surveillance are some of the only topics with near unified positions in the major political parties of a country
Besides that, whatever supposed think of the children faux concern get espoused, I bet on these failing because it doesn't solve root causes of insecurity nor does it address anyone that is legally an adult. Worries about cost of living, this solution is to try and block kids from knowing too much about that. Scared of war and getting drafted or lose the appeal of of volunteering to join because of social media, ban social media. In the vein of that, kids aren't patriotic and don't support historical allies like they used, maybe they don't look at their countries history including recent history with pride like previous generations, already deciding they don't want to have children by the time their legal adults - solution is ban social media. The solution is just marketing control rather than improving living standards
That never wanting to address adults things. People settle into their beliefs once they have to start taking responsibility for themselves. So new legal adult through their 20s. Really that period might as well be the age of adult children since we're in school so long now and take so long now to hit adult milestones like owning a home so it seems like people these days chase youth/escapism well into their 30s. This whole period of life is rife for radicalization and developing of antisocial behaviors but we only ever want to talk about the children with solutions that won't fix their fundamental issues of financial, health, transportation, whatever insecurities of an adult they will inevitably face. I've been hearing all about focusing on children since they're still developing while adults are lost causes for decades now. It's becoming clear to me that no one wants to tackle problems of adulthood even though we live in countries with aging populations with less and less children enough that we're now seeing student populations shrinking causing school closures and district mergers
It's real hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. And all this outreach to children we always talk about on the left has seemed pretty crappy for results in the last 40 years at least. Conservatives speak to teens just as well if not better without shying away from trying to get adults of all ages on their side
You urgently need to touch grass, Jesus Christ.
