Adults who don't verify their ages would also lose access to their social media accounts from next year, under the legislation.

Is this out of genuine concern about mental health?

Is this about preventing ""grooming""?

Is this the ruling class seeking to curb and kill social media altogether? We've seen fears expressed from some in the ruling class that it needs to go.

  • UlyssesT
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    24 days ago

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  • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Inshallah all social media is destroyed and the internet becomes only obscure archives and forums again

  • pooh [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    This is Mormons doing Mormon shit. Anyone who is at all familiar with Utah shouldn’t be surprised at stuff like this.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's chuds, so my first guess is they're doing it for the same reason they did all those textbook burnings and shit. Gotta keep kids from hearing any Bad Ideas.

  • CoolYori [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    So this law is going to force facebook to make people upload a picture of their ID to verify their age :data-laughing: Good luck with that Utah

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I think at the very least this is doing a good thing for a bad reason.

    We've all seen the brainworm slop that Social Media serves up. I don't think adults should be subjected to that shit, much less kids.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I think their fear is that social media is responsible for the significant spread of progressive views, especially with zoomers being so lgbt, and that they think the inevitable continuation of this is eventually going to lead to socialism. Ergo, it must be killed or controlled.

      At least some of them are viewing the "woke mind virus" as a path to communism and fighting social media as if it is the cause of it for that reasoning.

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      and yet it would appear that mormon bullshit has proven yet again to be the only viable post apocalyptic community of the US of A

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Why are kids having all of these mental issues? Is it because they live in a brutal society on a dying planet and can only look forward to things getting worse for the rest of their lives?

    No, it must be the TikToks.

  • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Having grown up with unrestricted internet access I do think there needs to be limits on how children can use the internet, but TikTok is pretty low down on the scale of harmful websites

  • Goblinmancer [any]
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    2 years ago

    President Xi, the people of Utah demand liberation from their authoritarian government :xi-plz: !