Ban YouTube for children under 16 as well.

BarcelonaAustralia is one of the countries where the siege on social media is most advanced. Legislators are preparing a ban on social media use for children under 16, and part of the public debate revolves around whether YouTube should be included among the restricted platforms. Albany. feed TikTok's perverse video stream, designed to override the user's ability to stop it, has been deemed harmful to minors, then YouTube should be included in the ban, because it too has its string of narcotizing clips that destroy the user's sustained attention span and often appeal to minors.

Now, if we accept that this is the case - and certainly social media is not only that, but it is also this - the reasonable question would be whether it makes sense to allow young people from the age of seventeen to enter to sheet In here, assuming there's nothing to be done. For me, this is the weak point of the entire debate about minors and social media: at its core, it means resigning ourselves to not intervening in the toxicity of these apps, as if it were inevitable. If there's harm to public health, which would be easily demonstrable, it must be acknowledged. Freedom of expression protects much of the harmful content, but nowhere is it written that these companies can promote it to maximize their profits while going against the common good. The algorithm must be able to be audited. YouTube, and the rest, must be able to be held accountable. And not only to minors, but to society as a whole.