The Verge: New York bans ‘addictive feeds’ for teens - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24182396/new-york-governor-social-media-law-parental-consent-algorithms

New York bans ‘addictive feeds’ for teens - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24182396/new-york-governor-social-media-law-parental-consent-algorithms

New York bans “addictive feeds” for teenswww.theverge.com States have been taking the lead on kids online safety.

Every single law like this is about destroying the free internet with the excuse of protecting kids, which it also doesn't accomplish

God, this is so stupid.

there *are* actual problems in new york state, not that you'd know it by how hochul behaves

This is very very dumb. Fix this instead, it is actually killing teenagers .https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/injury_prevention/teen_driving_fact_sheet.htm

Get the Facts About Sixteen and Seventeen Year-Old Drivers in New York Statewww.health.ny.gov Facts about 16 and 17 Year Old Drivers

You misspelled "states continue to attempt to destroy the First Amendment in order to control all information and prevent young people from accessing knowledge." 🧐

Oh fuck. This is totally out of control and stupid.

stop letting completely ignorant legislators make laws governing something they have zero understanding of

That's fucking stupid

I've got an idea. Let's put parental warning stickers on computers and cellphones. THAT OUGHTA DO IT.

Anything that doesn't involve the parents doing something.

But is this really being driven by lazy parents? Or is it being driven by a rabid, loud, but relatively small group of assholes harassing an essentially craven Congress that will always resort to THIS shit rather than react intelligently? PARENTS don't want TikTok taken away.

This is likely another case of some group like the Moral Majority or whatever incarnation has taken up the banner of "PROTECT THE CHILDREN" this time... They might even have good intentions. Though those intentions are almost always ignorant & headupassish, & end up doing FAR more harm than good...

MANY corporate tools serving in Congress deserve a warning label for themselves too.

all the moral panic over minors having access to information about Israel's war crimes

Mm, no, I don’t think that’s it.

it's what motivated the tiktok ban

Both Blinken and Romney have cited it as the reason for the ban in interviews.

Not really. People started trying to regulate Tik Tok way before the war because it’s owned by China and was selling and exploiting user information which was supposed to be private to drive views to propaganda and influencers that were mentally dangerous. So, there’s that.

It’s just because of Chinese ownership. All of the social media platforms do that second part and the vast majority of boosters of the TikTok ban do not care.

The funny part is, China has only about a 20% stake in TikTok. They created their own version to use in China because the Singaporean CEO wouldn't censor it as much as they wanted. Its HQ offices are in Singapore and LA.

Sinophobia was part of it, sure, but the reason they finally rammed it through and so quickly is because they were scared shitless at how badly they'd lost control of the narrative on Israel. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Sen. Romney links TikTok ban to pro-Palestinian contentwww.axios.com Critics say his remarks belie the "national security" motive and expose free speech suppression.

That’s why this a privacy issue; the selling of personal data by any platform, from social media to PACs and politicians is what gets people burrowing down rabbit holes. That’s how you get the “addiction.”

Why exactly do you think is happening on the other social media platforms?

Trump. In a word. There has always been an undercurrent of hate and rage in this country. But we were civilized and scorned those who expressed it. Trump gave people the right to fly their hate flags. The best rule is: “Would I say this to someone’s face?” If no, delete. If yes, get blocked

It’s so weird that this happened at around the same time they lost the ability to control the narrative as they did through traditional media. Coincidences are wild

We have to fight against this. They are controlling teens who should make their own decisions.

How about banning ‘addictive fossil fuels’ that do a lot more damage, or at least controlling them with some sort of congestion pricing?

How the fuck do you ban "addictive feeds", feeds are more of a concept than an actual thing. Feeds are curated by the user typically which is what makes them addictive in the first place. What are they gonna do? Ban tech or social media in general for anyone under 18?

Nice subhead, whatever dipshit editor wrote it.

defined as? Very stupid

This dumb pos again?

is she trying to be this awful or is she just a naturally awful human?

Taking the lead in doing dumb, unconstitutional stuff

UPSTATE NEW YORK ÜBER ALLES UPSTATE NEW YORK ÜÜÜÜBER ALLES

Sports betting is a growing problem among teens. I'll bet they won't ban that, though. One is a highly profitable industry and the other is an alternative news source. Guess which one social media is?

My governor thinking someone, somewhere can determine what an “addictive feed” is. Really?

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