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Re:Schools opened, suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed by prepend on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:12PM (#27942642)
Pi-hole blocking Instagram works pretty well for me, although not perfectly.

We can also treat this like smoking and opioids and lawsuit/tax excessively instagram and use it to pay for public mental health services.

It seems like there will be a clear evidence trail that Instagram knowingly marketed and permitted use of their app by children under 13. So that’s some future administration/state AG payday, I think.

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Re:Schools opened, suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed by retrac on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:15PM (#27942678)
You are right. I should not be defeatist. If social media is truly ruining our mental health (it's not really an "if" anymore, is it?) then it is both reasonable and necessary to start doing something along those lines.
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