Rethinking social media policies for young people | Anna Curzon | TEDxWaihī Beach

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NOTE FROM TED: This talk only represents the speaker's personal policy approach to and understanding of social media use and youth mental health which warrants further scientific investigation. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdf Six months after Anna Curzon let her daughter join social media, she was sitting in a doctor's office watching her child's light dim. A tech leader who thought she understood the industry, she discovered an "attention economy" engineered to addict kids — and a country with no online safety laws to stop it. A clear-eyed, urgent call to reclaim childhood from big tech and restrict social media before 16. Anna co-chairs B416, a New Zealand advocacy group established to address a modern-day public health crisis: the impact of social media on youth. Anna is passionate about the simple yet urgent mission of kee

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