By publishing its guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act, the European Commission has taken a major step towards social media bans that will undermine privacy, expression, and participation rights for young people that are already enshrined in international human rights law. EFF...

By publishing its guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act, the European Commission has taken a major step towards social media bans that will undermine privacy, expression, and participation rights for young people that are already enshrined in international human rights law.

  • mgnome@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Do better, EU!

    Entirely ban minors from Internet.

    Ban social media!

    In all seriousness though, if there’s something that by some consensus can considered unhealthy for kids, such as big social media - it’s more than likely to be unhealthy for adults too. However simply banning anything often just manufactures people’s craving for the “forbidden fruit”, so instead of that they could rather fund more educational initiatives to teach people about responsibly and safely surfing the net.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I think part of it is that change tends to be labeled as unhealthy

      I’m not saying there isn’t unhealthy characteristics about it but to say it is all bad is a stretch.