Adultism is a subject with a huge amount of stigma surrounding it. It's a form of prejudice and systematic discrimination against everyone below the age of adulthood, both children and teens. My latest poem is about this. mutedoodleden.com/less-they-say/ @sobukira.bsky.social @snowcalmth.com

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It seems everyone forgets that our own laws apply to these platforms, not just those of the United States—and governments are failing to do anything about it. @snowcalmth.com @sobukira.bsky.social @calmthwroth.eu

What we actually need is better legislation and for people to understand how those laws work. The fact that governments let social media companies break local laws shows a huge failure.

It is easy to point fingers, and I know I am doing that too. But facts are facts. If we actually listen to them, social media bans for young ones are just ageism and censorship hiding behind the word "protection."

What makes this uncomfortable is that the people complaining most about young ones on the internet are (young) adults between 16 and 34. This is the exact same group that uses the internet the most, and they also watch the most mindless content.

For example, people often claim TikTok destroys the minds of young ones, but they only make up a small part of the users. A massive 40.3% of all users are actually adults between 25 and 34.

The social media platforms confirm this themselves. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn all report that their largest group of users is between 25 and 34 years old. This is true for total numbers, percentages, and time spent online.

People make a lot of noise about banning those under 16 from social media. But did you know that less than one in three in this age group globally even have internet access? This is according to data from @unicef.org and the @itu.int

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When the government attempts to enforce the fines, social media companies will simply argue in court that they took all reasonable steps available with current technology, making the law (nearly) impossible to actually enforce. @sobukira.bsky.social (4/4)

Because of this, if a parent creates a profile and simply allows their child to use it, neither the parent nor the child is breaking the law. Furthermore, since there is currently no perfect system to verify a person's age online, platforms are unable to prevent access. (2/4)

A major oversight, based on the Australian social media law, is that it does not actually make it illegal for a child to use a platform. The law puts the burden entirely on the companies to prevent accounts from being created or maintained by those under 16 years of age. (1/4)

Banning children from social media is not the answer. Millions use it to connect, engage and empower others and themselves, as this young person shows. It is often seen as a lifeline for children looking to understand themselves and the world around them. #socialmediaban #childrensrights

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A day will come when society realises that artificial intelligence is simply too flawed and lazy to accurately determine our ages, and social media bans will be overturned. Companies will've wasted fortunes on a mistake that could easily be avoided by simply restricting the mature content right now.

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The result is dangerous platforms, not just for children, but for all of us. This law needs to be removed or rewritten, instead of all these social media bans. Another option is social media platforms based outside of the USA and blanket bans on US social media platforms.

Social media platforms are broken as a result of section 230 of the American Communications Decency Act. US-based social media companies aren't responsible for what people post on it, hence why the average social media platform lacks proper monitoring and customer support.

I don't support my children breaking the law, however, I do agree with my son on this one. The truth of these social media bans is that they don't do anything but ignore the problem, which is that the average social media platform is broken.

This is the only law I promise to break if it actually happens, because our governments are idiots. Banning social media is just lazy, and it proves they have no idea about the real problems young ones actually face. www.reuters.com/business/med... #Poland #SocialMediaBan #ChildSafety

I know a lot of Americans might hate what I wrote here. And honestly, that’s okay. I’m not here to write stuff just so people like me or give me clicks. I write what feels true and right, even if it makes some people mad. mutedoodleden.com/the-god-they...

That taught me something important, though. When Gen Beta starts struggling (and they will, because every generation does), I'm going to reach out and help them. Because how you treat the next generation matters way more than what mistakes they make.

The one thing I do agree with? We're doomed. But not because of anything we did. We're doomed because Gen Z and Millennials would rather point fingers than actually help. Every generation struggles—it's normal. But instead of lifting us up, older generations just push us down.

I also write a blog and have never used AI for it. Plenty of Gen Alpha children are creative; people just ignore us when it doesn't fit their narrative.

Then there's the claim that we lack creativity because of AI. Which for me personally is really funny, as I am literally spending my winter break right now on an art project with the identical twin girls from my class—something we chose to do, not something we have to do for school at all.

Claiming Gen Alpha is materialistic is true, but literally every generation alive right now is materialistic. It's not unique to us—it's capitalism affecting everyone equally.

Yeah, some of us don't respect authority automatically, but whose fault is that? Bad parenting and teaching from older generations created that. You can't raise children without teaching respect and then act shocked when they don't have it. It's directly linked to how we were raised.

Sure, some Gen Alpha children struggle with reading, but that's mostly a U.S. education system problem caused by policies older generations made. It's not universal to all countries, and blaming 10-year-olds for systemic failures that adults created is quite ridiculous.

People say we're addicted to our phones, but studies show Gen Alpha actually uses phones less than older generations. It's projection—they're the ones glued to their screens whilst complaining about us.

Words like "rizz" (charisma), "gyatt" (goddamn), "finna" (going to), and "cap" (lying) are African American Vernacular English. Yes, some people misuse them, but Millennials popularised and started misusing these terms way before us. We're just continuing what was already normalised by them.

Same with the whole "alpha/beta/sigma" ranking thing. That came from the manosphere, mostly Millennial blokes online. Half the people using those words don't even know what they mean, which proves how ridiculous they are—but again, not our creation.

Take "skibidi"—everyone acts like it's our dumb word, but it's from a Millennial creator (DaFuq!?Boom!, born 1990s). "Ohio" became a meme in 2016 when the oldest Alphas were literally six years old. We didn't invent this stuff; we just inherited it.

People love to criticise my generation (Gen Alpha, born January 2010–December 2024), but honestly? Most of what they complain about isn't even our fault. A lot of it comes from the generations criticising us the most—Millennials and Gen Z.

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I call it the #MAGAParadox the ability to hold two completely opposing versions of reality in their head as both simultaneously true when it benefits them and false when it benefits them. And they will resort to physical violence to prove both sides. Without cognitive dissonance.

However, that does not excuse this dishonesty. It is bonkers that we have to deal with this level of inaccuracy from "experts."

It is honestly disgraceful that medical experts sign off on this disinformation. I suspect it is just laziness. People are using AI to write articles without actually knowing the facts or checking if the information is correct.

They even claim the @apapsychiatric.bsky.social outlines specific criteria for it in the DSM-5. I checked my dad's copy, and it is not even listed as a diagnosis.

It gets much worse. Sources like Verywell Health spread pure fiction. They claim aphonia is a disorder where you can actually still speak. They also insist it is always neurological or psychological, never physical. None of those claims are true.

Clinically, aphonia means the absence of a voice. Yet, if you look it up, even medical professionals claim it means "loss of voice." That ignores people like me with congenital aphonia. I was born without vocal folds. I did not lose my voice; I simply never had one.

Sometimes people ask if I am mute or aphonic. Technically, I am both. However, I usually stick to saying "mute" because the definition of aphonia is often twisted completely wrong.

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New poem up on my blog about the Australian under-16 social media ban. mutedoodleden.com/the-glass-wa... #SocialMediaBan #YouthVoices #Poetry #DigitalRights

And to organisations like @coe.int, @youthforum.bsky.social, @fra.europa.eu: Please, wake up. Start doing your job properly. The fact that so many people don't even know we have these rights proves that you aren't being loud enough. Be better. Be louder. Fight for us.

If you can't make your spaces safe for us, then maybe you shouldn't be running them at all. It really is that simple.

To the people who own the platforms and websites: You need to realise you have a "duty of care." In places like the UK and Europe, laws like the Online Safety Act and the Digital Services Act essentially say you must look after the children on your sites.