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A comment on The Case for Banning Children from Social Media. Parent comment

Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by johnisgood on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:32PM (#35448115)
Why ban at all? Enforcing it is an issue. Privacy-intrusion is a given for everyone, not just kids. It probably would not work, similarly to any related bans. Again, why ban at all? Let the parents do the parenting... I guess? Or ban having sex without the use of contraceptives if you are so keen on banning.
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by tastysandwich on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:43PM (#35448180)
It's incredibly hard for parents to intervene. Even if you ban your child from using it, since every other kid is using it, the harmful effects are still there.

The best you can do is try to explain and contextualise everything your kid might be seeing, which is very hard to do.

Also, not all parents are engaged with their kids as well as they should be. Having bad parents doesn't mean you're not worth protecting.

> Or ban having sex without the use of contraceptives if you are so keen on banning.

I'm not sure what that means.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by johnisgood on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:39PM (#35448615)
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by JanSt on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:22AM (#35450099)
The government checks or disallows many things, i.e. drugs.

Individualism is strong in the US, but if parents sucks kids suffer.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by goatlover on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:22AM (#35451007)
The disallowing of drugs has not fared any better than disallowing alcohol did.
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by inkblotuniverse on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:17AM (#35451408)
Yes, the war on drugs has been really successful. I certainly want governments doing more of that!
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by swexbe on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:32AM (#35452358)
Libertarians hate to hear this but the government actually regulate lots of things, not just drugs. Many of these regulations are very successful.
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by goatlover on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:41PM (#35457776)
There's a difference between regulating and banning, or outright fighting a "war" on something. The latter causing far worse societal problems.
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