'I'd cry my eyes out': Some P.E.I. teens push back on proposed social media restrictions
1d 7h ago by piefed.world/u/beep in nottheonion from www.cbc.ca
"I'm just doing nothing all day at home, I'm bored, and I don't like to read books, because books are so, like, hard to focus on … and I just feel like I'd be a lot sadder if I didn’t have social media, because then I'd have nothing to do, like, nothing to distract me from being bored.”
One sentence to justify an entire social media ban, and not just on the under 16's.
I can't believe this sentence was uttered by a real human. You know what we did about being bored before social media? We fucking did something
I'm all for getting kids the hell off of social media, but...
“It actually places the responsibility on the teens and the parents to be the ones who are doing the work, when actually the technology companies in the first place could actually just design social media platforms that were safer and algorithms that were less risky and unsafe,” she said.
"It makes it so parents have to actually parent their kids when the companies should just instill my preferred parenting style on my child for me" certainly is a take.
"We do really need federal legislation that says that these companies are not allowed to come into this country and operate like this to put anyone in harm’s way,” she said
Most of these companies are not "coming into this country", you talking-point parroting buffoon. Stop blaming our utter failure as a nation on the Boogeyman.