Yeah but young people didn’t migrate off it because it was harmful

They migrated in part to instagram which Facebook bought and made even more harmful than Facebook itself

social media just needs http requests to exist, how does pre web 2.0 fix things honestly. gui apps have existed since windows 95 or even earlier, how is the tiktok app technically different than the space cadet paddle game with added network functionality?

Yeah that's because they have a state sanctioned version of TikTok that is controlled by an algorithm that police's peoples speech and what they do and reports anything untoward to the proper authorities.

And now that Fox News has bought TikTok, the US has their own version of an algorithm that will police people's speech and what they do, and most likely report anything untoward to the proper authorities.

It's starting to feel this whole capitalism for children isn't healthy.

Not having it be regulated makes it a lot harder for parents to do their job, because the kids with responsible parents are getting peer-pressured by the kids with irresponsible parents.

Or put another way: you're not making parents do their jobs; you're making their jobs impossible by forcing them to choose between ruining their kid's mental health by letting her be exposed to social media, or ruin her mental health by forcing her to be ostracised for not using social media.

The only way to have a successful outcome is to force everyone else's kids not to use it, not just your own, and no amount of rugged individualist good parenting can accomplish that by itself!

That said, I am extremely sympathetic to the arguments against age verification laws too, which is why my preferred solution would be to fucking outlaw and destroy corporate social media entirely, for kids and adults alike!

Oh won't someone think of the parents though?! How can they be expected to parent their own children, oh the humanity

Most parents won't. People are people. Those that would want to have to ballance the risk of excluding their children from the collective.

It's already started, for porn. The kids don't have to prove their age, they don't have proper ID. So EVERYONE ELSE has to prove THEIR ages, and if you can't, you are assumed to be underage.

See how well that works for the Nazis? Now they get to identify EVERYBODY who is on the Internet with their legal IDs, and they will know exactly who posted that nasty meme of Trump.

But it's okay, because it protects the children.