Banning kids under 16 from social media might make great headlines, and give the government the appearance of doing something meaningful, but it's tokenistic at best, harmful at worst. We could have an internet that doesn't consume us for fun and profit. We're choosing not to.
Tag: social media
At the Mercy of the Algorithm
In the recent flurry of political grandstanding about banning social media for children under 16, we seem to be taking for granted the idea that social media has to behave the way it does, be what it is. That these dark and frightening rabbit holes are a necessary part of the social media experience. An unavoidable consequence of the technology.