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ConnorHassonSecondEssay 3 - 14 Jan 2025 - Main.EbenMoglen
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< | It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | How Children Should or Should not be Restricted in the Age of Social Media | | | That is why I am interested to see how the ban on social media in Australia turns out. The mechanisms are fuzzy as to how it will actually operate, with a trial this year of different methods to halt the use of social media by those under the age of sixteen. The onus of noncompliance being on the tech companies, not citizens, Australia will halt minors logging into social media pages and tech companies will face a fine for noncompliance. Australia Passes Social Media Ban for Children under 16. Reuters, 28 Nov. 2024. In the end, however, I believe it will be almost impossible to limit a regular child’s internet access if the parents simply don’t see it as an issue. New pseudo social media sites will crop up, or children will simply lie about their age. However, if parents are helicopter parents in the sense that they restrict the internet, but not helicopter parents in the sense that they allow their children autonomy in the real world, that balance is the one I believe is optimal for a child’s upbringing. | |
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I think the category "social media" could use a little critical attention. Someone editing Wikipedia pages or using git to help develop a free software project, or contributing to bird counts or other citizen naturalism, like a preteen writing a letter to the editor of the local paper "back in the day" is doing something rather different than scrolling Instagram or commenting on TikTok. So perhaps it would be useful to perform some analysis rather than writing about some blunderbuss statute on the other side of the world, or even in Florida, preferring to take the sort of critical look you started out from without immediately descending into the usual law school thumbs-up or -down mode.
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