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Then ban social media as a whole, cherry picking features to ban is silly. Banning features that only harm young users that probably shouldn’t even be using the
by conductr 8mo ago
Then ban social media as a whole, cherry picking features to ban is silly. Banning features that only harm young users that probably shouldn’t even be using the app due to their age is misguided. If it’s unhealthy for kids, ban kids use.
- rsynnott 8mo ago"Then ban medicine as a whole, cherry picking medicines to ban is silly." Like, you don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. _This_ is social media, but probably would not make sense to ban (merely being very irritating is not an adequate reason to ban something).
- conductr 8mo ago> merely being very irritating is not an adequate reason to ban something I think we're talking about it's large scale impact on youth mental health, slightly more reason than 'merely...irritating' I do think it's sad that we have to ban it, because that means parents aren't doing their job - but that's the reality of it