Irish Government considering social media ban for under-16s (www.breakingnews.ie)
from Patnou@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 13:35
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Photonic@lemmy.world on 15 Jun 17:37 collapse

I think it’s a good idea to protect our young minds from addictive behaviour, like we do with drinking, gambling and in many countries, smoking.

However, it will be hard to enforce without some form of identification. We need to do that in a way where a company wouldn’t get their hands on it, unlike what some people have suggested, identification at the OS level. And we really need to keep it out of the hands of Google and the likes.

Maybe the government could send people a code or something at the age of 16 to unlock access to social media, IDK.