The current digital panorama in Europe across Europe a phase of legislative reconfiguration that requires careful and critical analysis. Based on the idea of protecting mental health and mitigating the phenomenon of cyber abuse, the French government has introduced legislation that restricts access to social networks to those under the age of 15.
This drug, with its beneficial purpose, undoubtedly protects the younger, and specifically on mental health, it has a number of consequences that help by exacerbating the vulnerabilities it is trying to combat.
Lessons learned from creating solutions, prohibition is a manifestation of technocratic populism. The state seeks to colonize the spheres of private autonomy and family responsibility, replacing greater governmental control with a pedagogy of freedom.
Faced with the complexity inherent in social adaptation in the digital environment, the executive chooses the path of better popularization before the problem, but greater erosion of freedom: radical prohibition.
Banning access to reds for the youth segment is not just an anachronistic measure in an irreversibly hyper-connected world. In addition to adopting medical literacy principles that provide individuals with the tools to navigate safely, the state builds barriers which, due to their digital nature, are not only ineffective but even counterproductive.
Theory and historical evidence show that restrictions of this nature imposed on high-demand businesses or services are designed systemically
In fact, this type of action is a paradigmatic example of an education system that has failed in its function of training resilient and autonomous citizens and the many fathers who they rejected the responsibility of educating their children.
Prohibitionists’ fundamental mistake is rooted in their misunderstanding of the technical architecture of red and how it works in any market. Theory and historical evidence show that restrictions of this nature imposed on businesses or services in high demand come from in a systematic way.
If you continue with Ley Seca, it will come later with digital regulation. Displacing the use of secret platforms de facto promotes the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) and identity support.
This disruption of the “digital shadow” generates an asymmetry of information and a traumatic disruption of intergenerational communication channels. When a minor runs an illegal business, he finds himself in a position of absolute defense: the fear of sanction or detection of their activation encourages them not to ask for help before a real conflict.
It nullifies the ability of young people to develop the necessary security in the technological environments that will undoubtedly shape their adult lives.
If states and technology oligopolies are given unprecedented control, it poses a serious threat to freedom
In addition, for the ban to work, you need to install high-fidelity identity verification systems, which is a danger; under the pretext of protecting minors, he follows the path he is supposed to achieve with anonymity in red numbers. The need to link legal identity with online activity is a fundamental pillar freedom of expression.
This gives states and technological oligopolies an unprecedented power of control that poses a serious threat to freedom. This is the dream of every autocrat, even if seen by a benevolent despot: a society of watched individuals.
Of course, if it has caused a substantial increase in pathological conditions in young people in recent decades, attributing this phenomenon exclusively or mainly to the consumption of panties is reductive. So banning TikTok is much more convenient than oblige fathers who take their commitments or the education system to restore rigor.
However, it is forbidden to attack the symptom, not the disease. Any legislative initiative in this area should, in this case, focus on the incentive architecture of technology companies, not on user behavior; This is to force platforms to remove faulty predictive algorithms or remove vanity metrics that exacerbate dysmorphia, allowing informed freedom to decide their use.
The actual protection of the minor does not apply to forced desconexión until adequate configuration of ecosystems.
The desire to prepare new generations for the future by excluding the digital present is an unsalvageable, inefficient and ridiculous logical and pedagogical contradiction. The Internet is the public space of this time and the primary ecosystem of the knowledge economy. Leaving young people out of this space does not make them safer; In the XXI century make them more ignorant, more rigid and less able to defend themselves.
It’s time to stop treating technology as the enemy and start treating it as a a skill that must be taught with individual criteria and responsibility.
The courage of a democratic society is found in its ability to promote freedom and distinction, not in the delegation of morality to an official bulletin. A policy that prioritizes Islam over education is ultimately a policy that undermines the self-governance of its citizens.
Less state paternalism and more family oppression; less bureaucratic walls and more critical thinking. This is the only way to a truly free society prepared for the goals of modernity.
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