i don’t know why people are so eager to make kids’ lives worse? no one likes being restricted from things, whatever nebulous social issue this is meant to fix could be better served by not having the schools start at fucking 730am.
you can work at mcdonalds at 12 now but you can’t browse memes after your shift? what the fuck is this?
Good! Always good to see young people sticking up for themselves. Too often laws like this happen like they’re just a given…
The law also imposes a curfew blocking minors from accessing platforms between 10:30 pm and 6:30 am.
You know… when I was in high school back in the early 90s, I’d spend half the night on local BBSes, which were sort of proto-social media restricted to a single phone number you could dial, and a little later I used IRC and Usenet by dialing in to the university computing system. And you know what happened? I was sleepy, but I made a lot of friends, some of them for life. There’s a guy from Turkey I met on IRC when we were both in high school and I lived in the U.S. in Indiana. We still talk and we’re both in our 40s. It was worth every minute. Even the times where I got harassed, and I did get harassed, on those local BBSes.
Somehow I survived all of that without turning into a drooling imbecile, a juvenile delinquent or commit suicide in my teens. (I also played D&D!)
Teenagers stay up late. That’s just how they are. Let them enjoy it.
This could also be survivors bias.
Now, in my beliefs, I agree with you, having also lived that dialup BBS life in the late 80s and early 90s. But part of me always triggers when I hear “when I was a kid, I [did thing] and I turned out fine!” Because maybe we did, and those that didn’t aren’t posting about it. The same arguments are used about bike helmets and seat belts.
The social media of today is like comparing “I ate hamburgers as a kid, and I turned out fine,” and comparing them to eating fast food burgers every day. There’s a difference in volume, calories, and lifestyle.
