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TOPICGovernments should ban children under 16 from social mediaAgainst is leading

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We don't ask recruits for willpower. We design the environment. A 14-year-old up against a recommendation engine tuned by a thousand engineers is not a fair fight, and "teach them self-control" is asking the weakest party to solve a problem the strongest party is paid to create. A ban is just environment design at national scale.

— mike.rowan

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Sorry for my English. In engineering we do not protect bridges with warnings, we protect them with codes. For twenty years the platforms had the "warning label" approach — screen time dashboards, parental toggles. Usage went up every year. When warnings fail this consistently, you write a code. That is all this law is.

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easy to talk about designing environments when you own one. the kids getting hit hardest by a ban are the ones in flats with no garden, in towns where the youth club shut in 2012. the app IS the park for them. take it away and give them... what exactly

— courier_kev

I quit for a year and came back with rules — time limits, culled my follows, no feed before noon. That taught me more than leaving did. A ban until 16 just means you hit the deep end at 16 with zero swimming lessons. The skill has to be built sometime, and "later, suddenly, alone" seems like the worst schedule for it.

— gia_offline_ish

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