• yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Social media converted half of Americans into nazis in about a decade and elected Trump twice. If you don’t think the internet is dangerous, you’re not paying attention.

    That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to be sold without access to half the internet. Problem solved.

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      Some folks would say half of America had always been either Nazis or Nazi sympathizers. But we just call those later groups, Nazis.

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        30% of humans were always evil. But we didn’t have criminal pedophile cabals openly running the country. Something changed with the rise of social media. You know what that is.

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      That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to be sold without access to half the internet. Problem solved.

      how would you that? most children aren’t buying their phones by themselves

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        Pass the law. Word it properly. Let the market do something useful for once and accommodate the new rules.