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No, it has not. What on Earth could possibly be wrong with a young person reading our discussions here on Lemmy and expanding their knowledge about all the topics we discuss here, for example? Even participating in it, asking and answering questions about any topic they find interesting? I find it hard to think of a more harmless hobby.
I myself started regularly participating in online communities at the age of 10 (that was more than 20 years ago, when there were not yet even rumors of a product called "iPhone" and I didn't even have my first own desktop computer yet). The vast majority of my joyful memories of my preteen and teen years stem from my participation in online communities. The vast majority of memories I have of pretty much anything else during that time period are negative. Online communities taught me many important things about life that I now use every day and that I probably wouldn't have easily learned elsewhere. They turned me into a more creative person with better communication skills, especially in writing.
So, no, the situation is not that people who want to ban young people from social media have a noble goal that oh-so-unfortunately cannot be achieved without invading everyone's privacy. The situation is that those people have a completely illegitimate (in my mind, outright evil) goal in the first place.
Same. We have to do all that we can to ensure their evil plan fails
There are plenty of reasons why I don't think kids should be on Lemmy, at the very least without supervision. Like, come on — people post porn here regularly.
We now already have a few generations with plenty of members who started watching online porn when they were technically too young for that, and we can now tell that this hasn't harmed them.
Prove it.
You can't prove a negative, that's not how experiments and hypothesis works.
If you're making a claim that early exposure causes harm, you're the one that has to prove it via the following steps:
Congratulations, you have just been taught how to do science
Yet you completely ignored studies like this from the National Library of Medicine
Excerpt:
So we know it behaves like a drug, the study goes into further detail how it affects adolescents — and here you are saying 'no it isn't actually that bad'.
Ask a heroin addict about his quality of life and his answer depends on his last hit.