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Chilldren on the Internet Beer 10/20/26 (Tue) 12:39:31 No.165232

Recently there's a discussion what to do about children's access to social media. Some countries have even issued a ban up to 15 y/o. That also introduces major concerns, e.g. mandatory age verification, which can be used for even stronger surveillance.

On the other hand, it is clear that social media are harmful - especially so to kids and adolescents. Some action needs to be taken.

I think the best solution is to make the Internet in its entirety only for adults. Yup, completely ban children off the Internet. How and whether it should be enforced is a different discussion, but the approach by itself opens new possibilities, e.g. the burden is placed on the parents, so no age verification would be needed.

I can only see upsides: less incentive for corpo censorship and thus less dumbass replacements for normal words due to it, like un*live, gr*pe, etc. No ipad kids with negative attention span. No apologies for even more surveillance to "protect the children". No unwanted exposure to retarded political takes from teens. And when the kids become adults, they have a greater chance to use the Internet responsibly because their brains have not been fried since infancy.

What do you think? Any other upsides? Any downsides?

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Anonymous 10/20/26 (Tue) 12:41:57 No.165233

>>165232

How is social media harmful? Why do you want even more government control? Social media has done nothing but good and spread progressive ideas. Why would you want parents to control children like dogs? So only wolves can rebel? There is no using the internet responsibility when only the correct side is allowed.

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Beer 10/20/26 (Tue) 13:01:04 No.165243

>>165233

> How is social media harmful?

Tons of reasons. One of many: it intentionally exploits the brain's reward mechanism. It "fries" the brain with extremely high levels of dopamine, which completely destroys the capacity for delaying immediate pleasure in favor of achieving a long-term goal. It makes you an incapable wreck.

> Social media has spread progressive ideas.

Indeed. I will not discuss whether that's a good or bad thing.

> Why would you want parents to control children?

Placing the burden on the parent is just one possible approach. Also, controlling your children is necessary to a certain extent - your job as a parent is to bring up the child well and you cannot do that if you never control the child in any capacity.

> So only wolves can rebel?

By the theory itself, only wolves have the ability to rebel - sheep do not. This is unconditional.

> Why do you want even more government control?

I do not.

> Social media has done nothing but good.

That's patently false.

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Anonymous 10/20/26 (Tue) 13:09:01 No.165244

>>165243

Children can't have long term goals. They are restricted to a certain path. Without social media, parents will completely be able to control their children and leave them uneducated about other things through limiting information. The child will be ostracized. Your opinion if executed will trap sheep in 2 decades of extreme control.

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Anonymous 10/20/26 (Tue) 13:15:40 No.165247

>>165243

By rebel, I mean secretly ordering a phone to use social media or running away. Wolf behavior has a very high bar. Sheep rebellion is throwing a tantrum, yelling, lurking on their parents' phone, and begging.

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Beer 10/20/26 (Tue) 13:34:30 No.165254

>>165244

> leave them uneducated about other things through limiting information

Children still go to school.

> Without social media, parents will completely be able to control their children

The alternative is to be controlled by the algorithm. Never heard of "the alt-right pipeline"? Or how the social media are "woke"?

Parental control is good. Children do not have the experience to make good decisions, they must be taught.

Ostracization only happens if you are different than the rest of the group. If all members have had the same experience, that experience will help you bond instead of being the reason for casting you out.

>>165247

Yes, because no angsty teen rebelled before social media. Be for real please.

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Anonymous 10/20/26 (Tue) 13:34:36 No.165255

>>165252

That's limited information. Schools take years to update their information.

Adulthood is at 12. At 12 years old, the body can process weed and alcohol. At 12 years old, sufficient thinking skills are nearly equivalent to a 20 year old.

You can't be controlled by something you consent to. Social media shows the real world. There is no collection outside of it that has such diverse information. "No one speaks like that." There's no record of real human speech. No one has compiled it. No one has compiled the real world, only social media is real. They don't have the experience because no one gives them it. Ever since governments took major control, children became chattel. It's not impairment, it's simply opportunity. They don't have the opportunity to make long term goals.

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Anyone else? Beer 10/20/26 (Tue) 14:02:03 No.165261

What do you think about this topic?

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