[yfw]

Its not good faith because its already broken by vpn. And its forcing kids with no credit cards to download free and malware ridden ones. How would you measure any level of success from this initiative? Doing something isnt a solution if it has tons of bad sideeffects

[Y_Y]

> its forcing kids with no credit cards to download free and malware ridden ones

It very much is not.

[Manuel_D]

It very much is. Free VPNs almost always have some sort of catch. E.g. HolaVPN users agree in the ToS to become an exit node for other VPN users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN)

If social media is so compelling, then teens almost certainly will take whatever steps are necessary to access it.

[Y_Y]

Proton has a good free offering.

That's not the point though. The kids can just not get a VPN, and instead do something else with their time.

[yfw]

Because social media is so easy to cut out you dont need to ban it or its so addictive you do?

[dghlsakjg]

> Its not good faith because its already broken by vpn.

One does not follow from the other.

We make speeding illegal even though even the most affordable cars can trivially bypass all speed restrictions. It doesn't mean that the efforts to curb speeding are in bad faith just because it is still possible to bypass speed reduction rules.