[LINK] "What’s Doomscrolling really costing you?"

[Sylvano]

Excellent, some push back!

That the burger gambling ads work or not is missing the point on a couple of fronts.

Firstly, the insertion of an interruptive message during the doomscroll behaviour is a direct message intervention in the addictive activity, not a warning to not act on the advertised call to action.

Secondarily, it is an easy to implement requirement upon the social giants.

And as both you and Mr Clarke have noted, the nonsensical attempts to banning reveal a different approach.

Notwithstanding that, I am in full agreement to your point:

Tom: “Tell the companies what age their customers can't be, then occasionally check. Leave it to the companies to work out how they tell how old customers are and just regulate their performance. Impose on-the-spot penalties based on the level of non-compliance.”

But I argue the it is not sufficient, and requiring intervention strategies implanted by the social media companies into the behaviour of their user base is a must.

cheers
Sylvano

> On 9 Oct 2024, at 6:32 pm, Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> 
> On 9/10/24 09:01, Sylvano wrote:
> 
>> as we follow Labor’s evolving social media ban policy for people
>> under age X ...
> 
> It troubles me that our MPs think young people need protecting from what they see online, but are mature enough to be sentenced for adult crimes.
> 
>> - insert a 10 second public service announcement, "What’s
>> Doomscrolling really costing you?" ...
> 
> Those ads don't work. It is just something inserted so legislators can be seen to be doing something. In that sense it is an excellent idea for online content.
> 
>> Crackpot idea? You have anything better?
> 
> Tell the companies what age their customers can't be, then occasionally check. Leave it to the companies to work out how they tell how old customers are and just regulate their performance. Impose on-the-spot penalties based on the level of non-compliance.
> 
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