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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by rpdillon on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:27PM (#46626135)
This line of reasoning has been applied to TV for the last 50 years as well.
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by lanfeust6 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:48PM (#46626366)
Calling it the boob tube was not without merit
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by techblueberry on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:44AM (#46632440)
Were they wrong?
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by rpdillon on Saturday January 17, 2026 @07:45PM (#46663706)
Every new generation of moral panic assumes that all the children are using their time fantastically if it were not for the latest issue. Except we've gone through this like five times before so if you did the math on that then probably no kids are using their time fantastically, so social media is probably taking away from time-watching TV. Or maybe playing video games. Or, if you're a satan worshipper, Dungeons & Dragons.
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