New York To Require Social Media Platforms To Display Mental Health Warnings (reuters.com) 37
Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users' mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday. From a report: "Keeping New Yorkers safe has been my top priority since taking office, and that includes protecting our kids from the potential harms of social media features that encourage excessive use," Hochul said in a statement.
This month Australia imposed a social media ban for children under 16. New York joins states like California and Minnesota that have similar social media laws. The New York law includes platforms that offer "addictive feeds," auto play or infinite scroll, according to the legislation. The law applies to conduct occurring partly or wholly in New York but not when the platform is accessed by users physically outside the state.
This month Australia imposed a social media ban for children under 16. New York joins states like California and Minnesota that have similar social media laws. The New York law includes platforms that offer "addictive feeds," auto play or infinite scroll, according to the legislation. The law applies to conduct occurring partly or wholly in New York but not when the platform is accessed by users physically outside the state.
Platform Label Key (Score:3)
Slashdot: Autistic and straight up retarded.
Facebook: Dementia and Alzheimers
X.com: WTF?
Reddit: Foreign agent mind control.
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Slashdot: Autistic and straight up retarded.
Slashdot: cisgender neuro divergent
Ftfy.
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rsilvergun. is not in New York.
Re: Platform Label Key (Score:1)
Slashdot: cisgender neuro divergent
Ftfy.
Slashdot: not a sex weirdo but often pretentious.
Ftftfy
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no one identifies as "cisgender" because gender ideology is a religion. just like atheists don't identify as "non-christian".
religion and gender have absolutely no rational reason for existing and the crybullying trans actvists pull to get people who simply do not believe humans can change sex banned is political abuse amounting to direct discrimination..
Re: Platform Label Key (Score:1)
Tiktok: CCP front opera--ooh shiny!
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Facebook: Dementia and Alzheimers
For those, I would have guessed Truth Social ...
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Where they are headquartered doesn't matter. What matters is if they have a legal presence in the state. If they do, that presence, at least, is subject to their laws, including all the various enforcement mechanisms, like fines (and seized bank accounts if necessary), and even jail time for contempt.
If they don't - of if they abandon anything that can be moved - then they're not.
Re: What happens if these platforms don't? (Score:2)
Just sayin, the companies have the upper hand in messaging and its pretty clear now the pols want the status quo, they like surveillance and social media. They have no impetus to do the right thing for society .
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Presumably some politicians are trying to change things up? Otherwise there wouldn't be a move for the platforms to display warnings.
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You're assuming that passing a law requiring warnings is about showing warnings, rather than simple virtue signaling.
There isn't a politician in the US at the state level or higher that has a good track record on that.
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Maybe the mental health warnings should be for New York itself.
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If they want to do business in NY they have to follow NY State laws.
We're going to lose the word "algorithm" (Score:2)
We need to find, capture, try, execute, and then piss on the grave of whoever decided that the word "algorithm" was the best word for what they didn't like about Facebook. Their hasty decision, combined the word's apparent mainstream sexiness (who knew?!) is going to result in the word's loss.
Re: We're going to lose the word "algorithm" (Score:1)
Outside of the adjectival form "algorithmic complexity," often interchangeable with "computational complexity," I can't say I used the word at all in a technical sense.
It may have been used liberally in my 8th grade algebra class or my 9th grade geometry class, but I don't really remember at this point.
Re: We're going to lose the word "algorithm" (Score:2)
But I doubt that deters anyone from using some app. Business will probably double or make work for consultants. Also doesn't prohibition, all that mystery that the native mind sees, doesn't that really reinforce the brand? Camel cigarette, anyone?
In related news ... (Score:3)
Good move (Score:3)
We have warning labels on cigarettes and those are pretty uncontroversial.
It's also uncontroversial that social media platforms know that their platforms are harmful. [reuters.com]
While I would prefer an outright ban on platforms using known-harmful practices, I'm OK with warnings.
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Ignorance is not a controversy.
Has the One Weird Trick ever worked? (Score:1, Troll)
Social media is a medium. It isn't the problem.
Alcohol, nicotine, and THC are chemicals. They aren't the problem.
Porn, gore, and gangsta rap are just scripted content. They are not the problem.
The problem is, and always been, between the ears of people who cannot make themselves moderate their intake.
I posit that it is absolutely incoherent worldview that wants warning labels and bans on social media, but tolerates and celebrates sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, state-sactioned gambling and outright state-run gam
Re:Has the One Weird Trick ever worked? (Score:4, Interesting)
There have been aggressive anti-smoking campaigns and smoking rates in countries that have these campaigns have dropped significantly. For example, in Canada, smoking rates dropped from 50% in 1965 to 10% in 2020 [uwaterloo.ca], a significant savings to our healthcare system.
So yeah, while warning labels etc. obviously don't work for everyone, they work for some people and can reduce the scale of a problem.
As for your other points: There's nothing wrong with sex if it's done safely, and that's why countries with proper sex ed to promote safe sex have lower teenage pregnancy rates and STDs than countries that lack it.
Drugs should (and mostly do, if they're legal) come with warnings; rock-n-roll is not dangerous, and gambling in addictive formats (eg, slot machines) should come with warnings.
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There have been aggressive anti-smoking campaigns and smoking rates in countries that have these campaigns have dropped significantly. For example, in Canada, smoking rates dropped from 50% in 1965 to 10% in 2020 [uwaterloo.ca], a significant savings to our healthcare system.
Speaking of teenagers, can you tell me how many of those vaping addicts didn’t get counted as “smokers” in that massive savings effort that didn’t help efficiency at all? Just curious.
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Vaping is a problem and of course, if you have rules, bad actors will find loopholes.
However, vaping doesn't change the statistics much. As of 2022, only 6% [canada.ca] of Canadians aged 15 and up have vaped in the last 30 days, though the numbers are higher for youth than adults.
So it's important to regulate vaping products and conduct the same vaping-control campaigns that were so successful against smoking.
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As of 2022, only 6% [canada.ca] of Canadians aged 15 and up have vaped in the last 30 days, though the numbers are higher for youth than adults.
15 and up you say?
Including 80-year olds in the vaping statistics, is like counting 80-year olds when talking about pregnancy and birth rates. Now tell me how many Canadians ages 15 - 25 are vaping. The problem becomes far more obvious then.
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Which country does this? How does one know it celebrates sex: Is there a state orgy day? Outside Mills & Boon stories or romance-fantasy chick literature, Western culture barely promotes the world-view that sexual intimacy is a normal weekly activity. Once upon a time, most Hollywood movies had a lonely woman sub-story (usually ending with her fucking the male lead) but that trope disappeared 10 years ago. Plus, the Sydney (AUS) Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras is gone.
Now, the erect penis festival in
They should call it the red flag law (Score:2)
Alas, they've already abused that for gun confiscation laws. Shame, it would have matched requiring cars to follow a man waving a flag.
suuuure... (Score:3)
After the mind-blowing success of the windows "are you sure you want to move the mouse?" confirmation dialogs, these people really thought that warning messages do anything? Who is advising these people? Why are they getting paid? Or was their actual contract to provide something with minimal effort that they can use to claim "we're doing something! pinky swear!" ?
everything (Score:2)
Everything not forbidden is compulsory.