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This underscores why I'm almost inherently biased against most regulations. In a lot (not saying all) of cases, we figure out what's bad for us and make decisio
by weliketocode 8y ago
This underscores why I'm almost inherently biased against most regulations. In a lot (not saying all) of cases, we figure out what's bad for us and make decisions to help solve it. Social, legal, and economic issues in our society often appear to work themselves out when left to their own devices.
Yet, so many have the opposite gut reaction: Teens using too much social media? Regulate the industry! Tax them! Take away their phones!
I'm glad to see things working themselves out with social media usage and hope its successes help increase our ability to avoid expensive and fruitless regulations in the future.
- alanbernstein 8y agoI understand your general point, but I have never heard of a suggestion to regulate teenage phone use. Have you ever heard someone actually suggest this?
- weliketocode 8y agoYeah. There was just discussion here on hn recently of schools banning cell phones. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671176
- alanbernstein 8y agoAs a US citizen, "regulations" has the connotation of federal- or state-level; that's what I meant to ask about. I realize now it's not clear what the commenter I responded to meant, but that was my assumption.
- burkaman 8y agoI genuinely don't think I've ever heard anyone suggest teenage phone use should be regulated. Generally regulations are suggested when bad actors are blatantly unwilling or unable to regulate themselves.
- slx26 8y agoYeah, I believe that the key point here is that regulations should prevent "harm" to others, not "self-harm". And as far as I know, that's how it goes most of the time.
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- weliketocode 8y agoHere you go. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671176
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