from most of the discourse here and even recent legislations in the us, it seems that people are taking the same approach for social media as the war on drugs.

from most of the discourse here and even recent legislations in the us, it seems that people are taking the same approach for social media as the war on drugs. i feel that we did not learn much from the failures in the latter. take the prawn site checks implemented by some states, which is being countered by use of vpn (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39955148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39955148). the social isolation and other vectors of depression exists in society, whether or not social media exists. we need more discourse for the root causes.