this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
89 points (100.0% liked)

Europe

1393 readers
431 users here now

News and information from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: La Mancha, Spain. Feel free to post submissions for banner images.)

Rules (2024-08-30)

  1. This is an English-language community. Comments should be in English. Posts can link to non-English news sources when providing a full-text translation in the post description. Automated translations are fine, as long as they don't overly distort the content.
  2. No links to misinformation or commercial advertising. When you post outdated/historic articles, add the year of publication to the post title. Infographics must include a source and a year of creation; if possible, also provide a link to the source.
  3. Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. Don't post direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments. Don't troll nor incite hatred. Don't look for novel argumentation strategies at Wikipedia's List of fallacies.
  4. No bigotry, sexism, racism, antisemitism, dehumanization of minorities, or glorification of National Socialism.
  5. Be the signal, not the noise: Strive to post insightful comments. Add "/s" when you're being sarcastic (and don't use it to break rule no. 3).
  6. If you link to paywalled information, please provide also a link to a freely available archived version. Alternatively, try to find a different source.
  7. Light-hearted content, memes, and posts about your European everyday belong in !yurop@lemm.ee. (They're cool, you should subscribe there too!)
  8. Don't evade bans. If we notice ban evasion, that will result in a permanent ban for all the accounts we can associate with you.
  9. No posts linking to speculative reporting about ongoing events with unclear backgrounds. Please wait at least 12 hours. (E.g., do not post breathless reporting on an ongoing terror attack.)

(This list may get expanded when necessary.)

We will use some leeway to decide whether to remove a comment.

If need be, there are also bans: 3 days for lighter offenses, 14 days for bigger offenses, and permanent bans for people who don't show any willingness to participate productively. If we think the ban reason is obvious, we may not specifically write to you.

If you want to protest a removal or ban, feel free to write privately to the mods: @federalreverse@feddit.org, @poVoq@slrpnk.net, or @anzo@programming.dev.

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
top 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think this is gonna work. You can't just ban something like that, you have to provide alternatives, and there aren't any. There needs to be a Club Penguin-type "kids internet". Course, dealing with children's data is "too expensive" (and risky), so that's not gonna happen.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

I don’t think this would solve some of the issues they would need to solve, one of the main issues being bullying which is done by fellow children.

I don’t know that it would even solve the issue of predators as they would find a way on to a children’s only social media site and still be able to get access to kids. I believe it would be even worse as a children’s only one would instil false confidence in parents that’s it’s a safe space and the same can be said for the children themselves, believing everybody is a child on there.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

man if only there were some kinds of open source software which the government could host for children to use

[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I’ve never seen these age limits be actually be unforced. The age limit here in the netherlands is 13 but go on youtube and you see way younger kids comment and post

[–] meneervana@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I too, have my doubts on how this age restriction will be enforced, besides the parents

[–] troed@fedia.io 3 points 3 hours ago

Us parents help the kids skirt the age limits since they're simply stupid.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There's only one person on Social Media and all they post is "help i am old".

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

"I've fallen and can't get up!"

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I got the email from Google that my son's account would have no more restrictions when he turn 13. I feel it's really early.

[–] NanoooK@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago

Good, their algorithms are toxic.