It's about kids. Its serious problem, every parent knows this. It has some scary negative externalities. Related issue, but not the same issue.

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mythrwy 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It can be both (and in my opinion is).

There are groups that would love to be in full control of visible information and parents rightly concerned about social media use by kids.

	▲	bluegatty 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There aren't really any groups that want full control that have any power really - it's more like systemic pressure. A police investigator trying to do his job is 100% sure he can solve crimes this way, to him, there is zero doubt about the benefit of being able to get info from social media, it's a moral concern. The anti-terrorist squad - same. They see all sorts of threats, daily they are truly concerned, they're all waiting for horrible things to happen and in each case they 'knew they could have prevented it'. Then you get corporate interests, who just want to 'sell gear to make money' Maybe it even works really well ... because of 'checks and balances'. But then, the 'checks and balances' start to fail, either from corruption, bad legislation, legal rulings etc. Those forces all collide into the 'slippery slope'

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logicchains 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Its serious problem, every parent knows this

Not "every parent knows this"; lots of parents fiercely oppose their kids being banned from access to decentralized information and communication sources. Would you prefer your kids get all their information from textbooks written by Glisaine Maxwell's father, all their news from sources owned by zionist-aligned billionaries?

	▲	bluegatty 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is about 'social networking and media' - generally not 'information space', ie. Wikipedia et. al. are not regulated. Crucially, parents can trivially allow their kids to access whatever information they want. Finally 'textbooks written by such and such' is delving a bit into conspiratorial inanity.