[rimbo789]

Great. About 10 years too late but better than nothing. Hope it becomes the global norm.

Once that’s done we should ban the over the 65+.

[energy123]

I want to see regulation of the algorithm. Something like forcing a chronological feed, or somehow nerfing the recommendation engine. Figure out a way to make it boring, bypass the whole censorship debate.

[andy81]

There are more options -

Banning advertising targeted at the user rather than the context

Enforcing Do Not Track

Enforcing GDPR (especially sites that use cookie banners)

[jacquesm]

Oh no! But yes, you are right, the elderly are very susceptible to really bad social media influence.

Drawing that to its ultimate conclusion: people are very susceptible to being influenced and social media may well turn out to be a net negative.

[lossyalgo]

Not great, because they promise to delete our IDs but don't, and get hacked (see Discord hack from a few months ago where 70k users had government IDs leaked).

To reiterate what I wrote above: We need to ban addictive dark patterns on ALL platforms for ALL ages.

[wronex]

I think the opposite is in order. Ban phones with screens for those over 18 (driving limit). Phones are a drug that people cannot seem to let go off. Even when driving. Kids don’t have cars. Perhaps a trade? A phone or a car?

[dist-epoch]

Yeah. We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a disinformation sharer and slop consumer.

[amelius]

Maybe we can also introduce an informedness test for voters while we're at it.

[chrisjj]

> We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a propaganda sharer and slop consumer.

... and force it first on Zuckerberg, Musk ... and Trump.

[Der_Einzige]

I'll accept it when we can ban bootlickers off of HN.