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"Denmark to ban social media for under-15s as PM warns it is ‘stealing childhood’"
theguardian.com/world/2025/oct
No, it's you who don't understand what a childhood's actual evolution function is.

The purpose of childhood is, purely scientifically, to play at the lives of adulthood, to thereby through the mechanism of "fun" learn the world that we will be living in as adults.
Due to our disproportionately large brains humans are born unready for the world, while other animals are done at birth, while we are evolved to expect at least around 20 years before finalized outside the womb.
During that process it is evolved for us to experience hardships such as social interactions to learn norms of our "in-groups", etc, and learn how to defend against predators and other exploitative harmful behavior.
This is what these ignoramuses are now striving to deprive people of by law, while the same people almost certainly will suddenly when adults WILL be subjected to the same "social media" and probably worse such, during their entire adulthood.
That is not "my opinion", that's science.
This is an attempt at a probable lifelong harm against the subjected generations.

Instead?
Invest in schools teaching source criticism, online self-defense, right to privacy, in the school and psychiatric systems, etc, etc.

Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’

Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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The so-called "age verification" labeled as "to protect the children" just ARE NOT about that.
Those pushing them either lie if claiming so, or too incompetent for their power. Those are the only options.

It IS about wrecking the foundations of a free Internet and through that disabling a free and participatory society by imposing mandatory ID to be allowed public political speech, to use political organizing platforms, and access to essential info about what is happening around us.

If it would have been about protecting, not just "the children", but any of humankind they would instead fix the root causes at harmful platforms, like ending intentionally addictive algorithms and infinite scrolling, regardless whom harmed by it.

These authoritarian proposals go against all humankind's evolved developmental process, where humans MUST have naturally progressing access to what we will be required to use and exposed to as adults. That is the actual entire point of childhood.
A blanket ban until some magic day after the development is done will leave people entirely unprepared for all dangers suddenly shoved at them, the ban having caused severe irreparable harm.

The bans ARE to protect ruling politicians from opposition and platform-corporation execs from ending their harming for profit of you.

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