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by linkjuice4all 822 days ago
Perhaps you'd like to explain your reasoning? While social media can certainly amplify harmful voices and give growing minds access to information they may not be ready to process fully - why is this the government's job?

Please be sure to include the age verification and other forms of data collection that similar politicians are passing as part of your argument.
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fragmede 821 days ago
Alcohol is restricted to those 21 and up, so it seems theres precedent for such a thing, even though the implementation differs (because it has to, sure to the nature of the thing).

Why do we have public schools? Why might that be the government's responsibility? The answer might clue you into why the government would want to do such a thing.

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analognoise 822 days ago
For the same reason drugs and gambling have policies - the government is (supposed to be) the collective will of the people and enough people deem it harmful to society as a whole.

There are levels of government that regulate even things like heights of fences in neighborhoods (you could pick something more serious, like occupancy limits to buildings), is it wild to think we wouldn't apply some level of policy to highly addictive and demonstrably detrimental surveillance capitalism?

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