[vlian2088]

>The vast majority of the population supports banning social media for kids so revolution isn't happening.

reddit isn't the vast majority of the population, fren. it's 1% of 4%.

unless you've got polls you could show to back up your claim? polls, not opinion pieces. polls asking unambiguous questions like "are you in favor of banning social media?" or "are you in favor of age verification laws?", not vague ones like "are you concerned about the content your kids might see on the internet?". got any of those?

[Gigachad]

77% of the Australian population were in support of "Proposed ban on social media for children under 16"

https://yougov.com/articles/51000-support-for-under-16-socia...

This was in 2024, since then the attitude is still very much that kids should be taken off social media, but that the current restrictions aren't yet working as the face scanning verification is easily bypassed.

[protocolture]

Australia is notoriously hard to poll.

Look at the 2023 referendum.

When something is fed to us by the media, and supported by both ALP and LNP there's rarely ever public dissent. The risks of age assurance weren't given any public airtime. The few criticisms that were put to the government were shrugged off as "oh it might start working later".

Probably a comparable issue would be the MyHealth Record nonsense, where the existence of the platform was largely uncontentious, but the change to make it opt-out rather than opt-in was actually put to public debate and once some day light got in, a significant amount of people opted out.

[vlian2088]

well, shit. Australians absolutely deserve having to scan their faces/fingers/eyeballs/assholes every time they touch their phones, then.

[intended]

> 6 in 10 parents worldwide support social media ban for under 16s - but children are divided

> Support among parents for a social media ban for under-16s is highest in Malaysia (77%) and India (75%), Argentina (55%) and lowest in Japan (38%) and Nigeria (39%)

> Globally, the majority of Gen Z (51%) – the first true digital natives – support a social media ban for under-16s. Support for the ban is highest in India (73%) and UAE (67%), Argentina (54%) and lowest in Japan (28%), UK, and Canada (both 40%

https://www.varkeyfoundation.org/post/6-in-10-parents-worldw... Support among parents for a social media ban for under-16s is highest in Malaysia (77%) and India (75%), Argentina (55%) and lowest in Japan (38%) and Nigeria (39%)

[vlian2088]

>among parents

increasingly few people are parents, so these numbers are don't reflect 'the vast majority' of the population.

[intended]

A majority of Gen Z dont want it for kids, so that isn't true either. Plus, thats a moving of goal posts.

[vlian2088]

I responded to "the vast majority of the population supports banning social media", not "the vast majority of parents supports banning social media".

the latter wouldn't surprise me at all, I've seen all kinds of degenerates suddenly begin to act like boomers after they've had a kid.