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A comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children. Parent comment

Re:Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 1... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday October 24, 2024 @01:17AM (#41932167)
Bans done wrong can also make the thing being banned even more appealing, increasing harm. Telling teenagers they can’t do something is always in that realm of calling out forbidden fruit.
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Re:Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 1... by potato3732842 on Thursday October 24, 2024 @07:01AM (#41934292)
Even ignoring that bans tend to make things "cool" to young people, bans done wrong tend to simply concentrate roughly the same or close to the same amount of harm.

Sure, less people habitually got drunk and beat their wives/kids during prohibition, but approximately the same harm still happened, it was just concentrated in all the people who had their lives ruined or got killed by the gangsters or the feds.

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