Since its integration into our digital world, social media has played a pivotal role in youth organizing and social mobilization. Yet, people’s access to these platforms is increasingly coming under threat from courts and legislatures under the guise of protecting young people online—presenting a...
  • Trilogy3452@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    TLDR is basically because young adults can’t access the platform they’re missing out on news and a chance to have their opinions heard.

    If I read that right

    • group_hug@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      There is no news on Canadian Facebook, so there is that.

      Everyone gets different news according to the algorithm anyways.

      Ultimately the Facebook corporation and the billionaire that runs it decides what news propaganda gets pushed to each individual in their feed.

      Any activism on the platform is going to be shared with the government Zberg helped install so it can be quickly quashed, intimidated, or eliminated.

      This doesn’t seem like big loss to me.

    • TheBlindPew@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      8·
      2 days ago

      To add to this TLDR, the age gating and sensitive content filter forced onto underage users plays into Metas surveillance Capitol business model and removes a lot of the visibility and resources that LGBTQ youth might need/want because by default it considers anything that has to do with LGBTQ topics as adult and blocks them under the sensitive content filter.

      This has a possibility of increasing the social isolation that LGBTQ youth might experience by depriving them of access to their communities online if they are subject to the sensitive content filter

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      young adults can’t access the platform they’re missing out on news [on palestine] and a chance to have their opinions heard [about china].

      changed the words in your statement to reflect the true intention behind all efforts at preventing tomorrows’ young people from accessing social media via age & id verification laws that are currently being pushed all over the global north and its periphery – the epstein class wants to keep westerners ignorant about their inhumane deeds like it’s still 1995.