“It’s time for lawmakers to choose: Are they going to side with kids and the safety of our children, or with Big Tech?”
Holly christ- like seriously. The manipulative nature of the sentence. "Big tech" is horrible, but YOU chose to use it. It's not "Big tech"'s fault you made poor decisions.
"'Minor’s son Matthew died at age 12 after participating in the 'choking challenge,' which Minor says he learned about on social media. "
Do you know this is the most ridicules argument. I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s and I remember this being a thing back then! Schools even covered this as a topic and there were after-school TV specials. NONE OF THIS IS NEW. NONE OF THIS IS A PROBLEM WITH "BIG TECH".
This is a problem with crappy and lazy parenting to whatever degree you can call it a problem in the first place.
There will ALWAYS be kids who off themselves. It's often not the "internet" or "big tech" that is the fundamental problem. It's treating kids like property where you can dictate to them "you must attend school". "you must attend this school". It's authoritarianism at its best that is the BIGGEST part of the problem.
You as a parent were almost certainly the primary contributing factor in your sons death, not social media, not big tech, not the internet.
Helicopter parenting and authoritarianism is far MORE dangerous than "big tech", "AI", social media, or the internet could ever be.
Stop being a control freak and let your kids grow up. Stop forcing them into situations that are harmful (schools they wish not attend because of bullying you CAN'T solve no matter how many laws you pass, of which is probably only making things worse).
Mr Penguin
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