Greece to ban under-15s from social media from next year

4/8/2026 at 4:21:13 PM

Good thing the kids are safe.. from being allowed to use apps or websites with that allow users to communicate.

Thank god we dodged that bullet

by bcjdjsndon

4/8/2026 at 4:28:06 PM

You mean apps designed to get kids addicted to scrolling through endless brainrot content?

by xigoi

4/8/2026 at 5:05:11 PM

there are other means for communication . you realize how unnecessary these services are once you stop using them

by 9p

4/8/2026 at 1:36:11 PM

Of course, many countries and states are doing similar things. Don't believe what they tell you, though. It's not about "rotting their brains", it's about social control. It's about keeping them from reading "misinformation" and "disinformation" at an early age, and coming to distrust "official" sources. This buys the government 15 whole years of pure, unadulterated, propaganda. Hope it makes good little citizens. Probably won't, though.

by phendrenad2

4/8/2026 at 2:03:54 PM

Because everyone uncritically accepted government propaganda before social media came around?

by SubmarineClub

4/8/2026 at 2:38:19 PM

When I was 13-14 I believed a lot of bullshit. You might not remember so, and probably think you were very different and unique and special, but you too were not immune to propaganda.

by ramon156

4/8/2026 at 4:08:37 PM

Ah, the old, "This thing happened to me, and even if other people say it didn't happen to them IT MUST have happened to them and their denial of it just makes me even more justified" argument.

by KyleTheDev

4/8/2026 at 4:41:27 PM

What’s this, the old “I’m too smart for propaganda to work on me?”

by kjkjadksj

4/8/2026 at 3:01:56 PM

when i was 13-14 i was taught by the youtube algorithm to hate women and "SJWs"

this is, in my opinion, worse than goverment propaganda

by Natfan

4/8/2026 at 7:15:48 PM

Nice strawman, I guess?

by phendrenad2

4/8/2026 at 2:57:23 PM

Social media is so, so much worse than anything a government could come up with. This is a good thing for the world even if there are ulterior motives at play.

by _se

4/8/2026 at 4:19:24 PM

You're on it right now, this terrible, evil social media. Vaguely defined as it is

by bcjdjsndon

4/8/2026 at 5:11:15 PM

Massively different from algorithmic doom scrolling feeds.

I would call HN a type of social media lite, but not the type of social media that's leading to generation-wide mental health issues in children/teens.

by _se

4/8/2026 at 4:28:49 PM

I also don’t think people under 15 should use Hacker News.

by xigoi

4/8/2026 at 4:02:56 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

by sunaookami

4/8/2026 at 4:18:45 PM

Yes, social media creates useful idiots, you are correct. And also possibly one of them, if you're arguing that it somehow makes people smarter or more informed.

by _se

4/8/2026 at 7:19:05 PM

Right, you're entitled to your wrong opinion. Don't say we didn't warn you when you find out how wrong you were, and what the consequences are regarding government control of people's minds.

by phendrenad2