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That happened last week when social media scholar <span class="je"><span class="je" aria-hidden="false"><a class="og jf fe" href="https://medium.com/u/ce5e55092c08?source=post_page---user_mention--e0bebf7a72c2--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">danah boyd</a></span></span>, author of <a class="af of" href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300199000/its-complicated/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em class="oh">It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens</em></a>, deftly <a class="af of" href="https://zephoria.medium.com/kosa-isnt-designed-to-help-kids-335ab57cddae" rel="noopener">explained what’s wrong</a> with a proposed law that would force social networks to build parental controls.</p><p id="1e85" class="pw-post-body-paragraph nj nk gu nl b hs nm nn no hv np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe gn bk">“People who are obsessed with tech think that it will solve all.the.things™ and they are fools,” writes Boyd. “In all of these discussions [about keeping kids safe online] we keep centering technology. Technology is the problem, technology should be the solution. What if, instead, we focused on what challenges young people are facing? What if we actually invested in addressing the issues at the core of their anxiety, depression, and suicidality? What if we invested in helping those who are most vulnerable?”</p><p id="b942" class="pw-post-body-paragraph nj nk gu nl b hs nm nn no hv np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob oc od oe gn bk">Boyd’s referring to the <a class="af of" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Online_Safety_Act" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Kids Online Safety Act</a>, which was the subject of a <a class="af of" href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/big-tech-and-the-online-child-sexual-exploitation-crisis" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Senate Judiciary Hearing</a> the week before last (during which, incidentally, <a class="af of" href="https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-congressional-hearing" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a senator from North Carolina asked the CEO of TikTok how WiFi works</a>…). Fundamentally, this is a case of “<a class="af of" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_fix" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">solutionism</a>” — the age-old human desire to try to find technological solutions to complex social problems. But the internet is just a mirror! It magnifies whatever’s not working (or working!) in culture and society at large.</p><h1 id="b160" class="oi oj gu bf ok ol om hu on oo op hx oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd bk"><strong class="al">What else we’re reading</strong></h1><ul class=""><li id="d0fb" class="nj nk gu nl b hs pe nn no hv pf nq nr ns pg nu nv nw ph ny nz oa pi oc od oe pj pk pl bk">File under ‘things you didn’t know you didn’t know’: <a class="af of" href="https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-17-types-of-wallpaper-37c1c460d9a4" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The hidden geometry of wallpaper patterns</a>. 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