[caslon]

> But there are a few problems with this. The keyword lists always have glaring omissions. Millions of young adults can still easily find dangerous content, such as tips on how to self-harm or kill themselves.

This is an incredibly condescending worldview. If a person's going to commit suicide, allowing them to find methods that aren't likely to fail or cause extreme amounts of pain is incredibly important. By interrupting their access to information, you're likely to end up pushing suicidal people into making attempts using what little information they already know, which can often lead to excruciatingly painful medical consequences for the rest of their lives, whether lasting minutes or decades.

Intervention is good, but pushing for the elimination of the ability to find that content is almost impossible to see as anything but harmful.

By the way, are you related to the chain of Robert Morrisi that worked on UNIX, wrote the first computer worm, and wrote the language this site is written in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris

[codingdave]

Lives are saved by not having easy information on how to commit suicide. When you talk to suicidal teens, often the reason they seek help is because they don't have a workable plan. So putting these roadblocks in their way drives them to seek help instead of making and carrying out plans. This is basic safety, like locking away knives and medication - don't help them plan.

[caslon]

Encouraging them to make incorrect attempts is outright worse than allowing them to make good ones. There are a lot of ways in which a suicide attempt can go wrong, and pretty much all of them leave the person wanting to die more, not less.

[tester89]

The problem with this point is the inherent assumption that suicide is bad.