alt Hacker NewsThis is such great news, we have seen mental health decline a lot this decade while social media among teens have become a commodity.My only concern is how this will be enforced, trusting private entities with IDs and passport doesn’t seem reliable with the recent leaks. We do not want to risk children like this. I don’t know which country started this trend, with banning social media though, maybe it was Australia but I am in favor of it. I hope next step is for schools to ban phones as a whole.
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greatgib • today at 11:08 AM
At the time of the Christian Inquisition horrors, same things happened with books...
> This is such great news, we have seen mental health decline a lot this decade while social media among teens have become a commodity.
Yes, and simple solution could be (or: could've been) making parents control their kids social media usage. It's only harmful in excessive amounts, several hours a day. (Unlike drugs, or alcohol that only needs secons to be harmful.) Parents can control that, and absolutely would if government told them so.
There is absolutely no reason to ban kids from social media.