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Re:Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys Gener... by bootlooped on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:34PM (#27108580)
If you're familiar with any other harm reduction efforts, pretty much the same arguments are made against all of them.

Take for example needle exchanges. People who run needle exchanges are not asserting that people being addicted to heroin is a good outcome, only that people being addicted to heroin and also having to share dirty needles is worse.

Likewise, I'm not asserting that little kids using Facebook products is a good outcome, only that it may be less bad than other outcomes.

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Re:Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys Gener... by anoncake on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:45PM (#27108722)
Arguably, not allowing children to use Facebook products is easier than keeping keeping heroin addicts from consuming heroin. Also, I doubt needle exchanges actually motivate anyone to start taking heroin whereas getting children to use Facebook products is obviously Facebook's aim here.
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