I feel like you might be looking at this incorrectly. This is political of course given it's FL, but I'm attempting to look past that. The issue, which has be

I feel like you might be looking at this incorrectly. This is political of course given it's FL, but I'm attempting to look past that. The issue, which has been exhaustively studied by people like Jonathan Haidt and posted about on HN, is that there is great evidence that the underlying psychological impact and algorithms with social media platforms is having a negative effect on teenagers, especially females. Some of these studies have been shared right here on HN, but here is a link - from a mostly left leaning source just for you: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-dangerous-experiment-teen-girls/620767/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-... This isn't the same as the Yahoo chatroom or social media that some of us older people grew up with. We might as well compare apples to oranges. Does that mean we should ban it? I don't think it matters. My personal opinion is that stuff like this can't be stopped by a stroke of a pen or by whether you identify as left or right wing. 13 year old me didn't care about some checkbox asking if I was a certain age. The only thing that will stop this is for kids to not want to use social media - they have to think of it as not cool. Given the ever increasing sophistication of this type of software on a psychological level, I don't see that ever happening.