Ontario school boards launch lawsuit against social media giants | The Social
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- They’re seeking $4.5 billion in damages, accusing the companies of “disrupting students’ fundamental right to education”.
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It’s the parents who are responsible to control what their kids watch!
This is Huge and Fantastic! for mental health & bringing awareness. Social media affects us all, I am on social networks for 30 minutes a day to Protect my Peace. Bravo to my Ontario School Board for getting the conversation going. Perhaps the big companies can work with parents for a solution to help our children and their developing brains. PS Melissa, love your hair today :)
I agree with Andrea parents have a responsibility to curtail the exposure of their kids and social media. I policed my kids they did not get a device until they were 16. And we talked a lot about social media and what it did to their brains. And it works for us now they are in their early 20s. And they are not on social media by choice.
Social Media needs to be held accountable for its content just like regular media. If you are a gossip site and you spread malicious or deliberate lies you deserve to be sued.
Yes! Thank you Cynthia!
I see the points that Andrea and Jess raise, but I think the point the school boards are trying to make is one of exposure. Of drawing attention to an issue. They’ve succeeded in that. I don’t trust the government to do ANYTHING in any sort of appropriate timeframe that they should be doing.
We're going to look back 50 years from now and shake our heads at how crazy our society was to allow kids access to the craziness that is social media.
Young people thrive when they are allowed to have wonder, imagination and creativity. Access to the rabbit hole of neverending content on social media, and the internet in general, takes that away. No wonder their neurotransmitters and receptors are burned out to the point of anxiety and depression.
I really hope that is the case, but have a feeling social media is here to stay, unfortunately.
@@leeshgill87 I think social media will still exist but it might be less of the wild west version we have today. My nephews and nieces are in their teens and early 20s and I can see them already moving away from social media and opting for old school hobbies and spending more time in nature. The pendulum always swings.
@@coolbreeze5683 That is wonderful to hear and 100% agree!
Andrea do you know hard it is to take kids phone away at 7:00 pm esp when they are teenagers? I have 3 kids and it is an ongoing uphill battle when we gave full time jobs, have tons of other responsibilities to fulfill. Mel and Cynthia make very good points on this.
They should be banning instagram and twitter
Sorry not sorry...the school boards need to sue the parents who buy their children the devices and allow them to sign onto the social media accounts. Also they need to sue themselves for not having a backbone to ban those devices in school.
where is the money coming from for this?? When teachers whine and complain that there is no money for their pay, student activites and basics, remember that they thought it better to waste it on a frivolous lawsuit.
Andrea missed the mark here. If parents are at work then come home to cook or clean and have little help I’m not sure where she sees them also having time to police screen time. Spoken a bit like she has no experience in the matter
I literally just took my tween kids devices away so they will shower and clean up all the dishes in their rooms. They are not happy. I don’t care. I can’t battle this every night. Making supper lunches doing laundry driving to sports yelling at them to get ready for school in the morning. Single mom. It is always easier to just let let them have devices. Easier for me…
Next the school boards will be suing any 7-Eleven stores that are within walking distance of schools for being available to students. Whatever age limit there is for people to use social media is determined by the companies and by the law, not by school boards. If the schools already have policies in place that the kids keep their phones in their lockers during class time, or even if they ban phones altogether (which would be stupid if most kids don't have a car in the parking lot they can keep their phone in), that's the best they can do. They shouldn't be interfering with those kids' personal lives. If a student sits at McDonald's on Saturday checking out Facebook pics and videos from Winnipeg nightclubs they can't wait to go to once they turn 18, that's none of the school boards' business! The school boards don't go after other citizens like me, who are free to do whatever they want on the web as long as it's legal, so they shouldn't go after students either. Maybe they can educate them about what too much internet use will do. Then the teachers assign homework that makes them do research and look up things on the web even more. It ain't the '70s anymore, dude. (Why aren't they suing Twitter/X, I wonder?)
Sure let's take away all responsibility from parents shall we? 🤨 parents just don't want to parent their kids anymore and blame everyone else around them for their lack of parenting....
Cynthia and Melissa are overly dramatic in this
“Bio-hacked” 😒
Maybe if you googled a bit you’d see it’s not dramatic at all but rather real
Respectfully, please get a tech expert or someone who understands software programming on the panel when ya’ll do these segments. So many people seem to think it’s impossible to regulate the tech industry. It’s not.
One of the hosts suggested “well kids can fake their age to get on”. As if the age question is the only way to block a person from accessing things online. Can the average person get into every website and application? No because there are ways to block unauthorized access, experienced hackers not withstanding.
The algorithms and programs can be re-written. The sale of the hardware can be regulated. These are not impossible things. Tech companies are motivated by profit not people’s wellbeing in the same way tobacco companies were. Yet alcohol and cigarettes are now regulated. It’s not a matter of it can’t be done, it’s a matter of will.
Ues so true, my husband teaches for 30th year and ad as wife i say i meet parents they're fit to be parents sadly but true 🫣🫣