I cannot even imagine giving a social media platform enough information to even do this. Maybe just don't?
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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“Hey just a heads up our algorithm is making your spawn suicidal”
Yeah, I hate that our only two realistic options are allowing companies to self-regulate or age verification, but age verification feels like the lesser of two evils. We'd need to see much more immediate and catastrophic effects for the government to force social media companies to give up their algorithms and actually moderate without using imprecise LLM's and automods.
Forcing people to give their picture to Peter Thiel is not regulation. Age verification laws are giving companies more licence to abuse users, not less.
Respectfully, I've heard all the arguments and do not care to litigate it again.
What you and I think is immaterial. These are the only realistic outcomes in the current ecosystem. You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.
Parental controls are a thing that exist. Used to be parents were responsible for monitoring what their children do, not the government or private corporations
You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.
“Cigarettes now with filters!”
Parents everywhere: oh thank goodness
The neat thing about algorithmic social media is that content relating to suicide and self-harm inspires a lot of interaction among teenagers, causing it to be shoved in their faces whether they search for it or not.
Suicidal teenagers are not searching for suicide material on Instagram; Instagram is feeding suicide material to regular teenagers for ad views.
What if the parents are the cause of the suicide thoughts?
And how will Instagram know who my parents are?
The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram’s parental supervision program.
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