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Comment Re:None of this matters (Score 1) 59

Addicts will work around the ban. This generation is already lost. The ban helps start a new generation of addicts, the kind who haven't yet been fed algorithmically designed addiction.

Hey, here's an idea, I've got this awesome new site, you'll love it! All you need to do is jump through a whole lot of hoops to get to it. You in? If so I'll send you the 10 step instructions!

Comment Re:Looks like a great success (Score 1) 59

You need to read better. 86% usage before the ban, 81% usage after the ban. 5% stopped - depending the margins of error on each survey.

Or we could look to the numbers in the previous story on this which said 30% stopped. The numbers vary depending on method of recording. The reality is some people have stopped. Success.

Comment Re:Governments don't have the right (Score 1) 120

Not really. One doesn't need to have something fully tested to effectively see how the law is applied. Lack of a ruling, lack of having cases thrown out, lack of action, all effectively determine how the law works as it stands.

Right now what you interpret is irrelevant. The fact is that the Flock issue is just the latest in a string of similar cases. As such there's no reason to believe that anyone is going to challenge it this time either.

Comment Re:Ads and Bad Advice (Score 1) 73

2) nobody wants to read a forum thread with over 100 posts to try to find the one post with the real answer surrounded by a collection of bad answers and people saying "YUP, IT WORKS NOW" with zero context otherwise.

This has been a solved problem for a long time with quite often the correct answer being highlighted or original posts updated. But that's beside the point. If you trust the AI answer, you're not going to click an article or a forum link regardless of whether they show ads or highlight a solution.

Though sometimes you do need to dig deeper. Google's AI never answered WHICH glue to use to keep cheese from sliding off a pizza, you'll need to actually read the reddit post for that.

Comment Looks like a great success (Score 3, Insightful) 59

Despite being poorly implemented by platforms nearly 20% of kids have stopped, and so soon after the laws were enacted? This seems to have worked better than expected. A few fines in the direction of Facebook and Google will improve these numbers further.

Then you just need to wait. When smoking was banned for under 18s the day after they still smoked as well. These days smoking is rare. The current generation is a lost cause, they'll VPN their phone addicted brains to get their daily fix of TikTok if they need to (my niece in Australia is the type of person who would watch two twitch streams in parallel and then have a mild panic when someone asks her to put the phone away at the dinner table, it's insane).

The next generation now stands a chance. People are less likely to join social media as a new customer if they need to jump through hoops to do so.

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