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Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media (www.euractiv.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

With that logic we should give everyone a nuclear bomb and teach them not to press the button. Let's see how that works out.

Big tegh companies spend billions on ways to influence your behaviour, making it even difficult for adults to not fall for their traps, let alone kids with still very much underdeveloped brains. Just look at all the stupid things you had done when you were a kid.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

My answer was an ideal thing, but it will not happened soon because of the big corporates, they are keeping us for profit. You're absolutely right that it's the fault of corporations.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev -1 points 4 weeks ago

With that logic we should give everyone a nuclear bomb

And in here lies the problem of using bad analogies.