Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …
But unlike media literacy, bans give the government a pretext to demand ID from everyone using the internet, and thereby increase surveillance of the population. This year is evidently the year when they’ve all decided to do it.
The solution to that is media literacy, not bans. But of course one of those two is a lot easier than the other.
But unlike media literacy, bans give the government a pretext to demand ID from everyone using the internet, and thereby increase surveillance of the population. This year is evidently the year when they’ve all decided to do it.