Banning Teens From Social Media Pushes Them Into Darker Corners Online - David Inserra
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of banning social media for teens and advocates for parental empowerment and digital literacy instead.
We weigh the push for an under-16 social media ban against what it would take to enforce it and what it would cost in privacy, anonymity, and open debate. We use Australia and the UK as cautionary examples and argue that empowering parents and teaching digital literacy beats outsourcing speech rules to the state. • Australia’s ban in practice, including high rates of circumvention and account shutdowns • unintended shift of young people towards riskier platforms and unfiltered browsing • why ...
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