I enjoy participating in wildly diverse online communities and I hate censorship.

I have seen the way heavy social media use changes some peoples personalities. it's scary. these platforms don't just home communities: they're engines, with tendencies. including numerous ways in which these platforms are implicated in youth suicide.

I am absolutely convinced that children should be discouraged from these engines just as they should be discouraged from alcohol.

I totally recognise that if that means these platforms demand proof of ID, that changes their privacy profile and some people will choose to stop participating.

perhaps this can offer some stimulus for other ways of online community forming. Thanks everyone here: I've participated in a few online conversations about the topic this week, and this is the only interesting one :)