…so why are people so up in arms against bans and restrictions on children having access to social media, where they have even less oversight and can do so themselves?

  • Dookieman12@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    It can be simpler than that. If operating systems offered an option to create a user account flagged as a child account, it could also come with software to limit the use of child accounts on the local machine, and let the parent configure what is/not blocked.

    I know third-party solutions exist for this use case. My point is that the functionality could be implemented better and use of it could be more mainstream.

    • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      My ideal solution would be a parent controlled OS based “child account” that has a white list for allowed apps and websites and parents who then use that feature.

      I would like to avoid any solution where the website learns anything about the users. Including what facebook has proposed and done in the US, making the age API request thing a law. They’re doing that to make their ad targeting more precise, not to protect anyone.