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by Yizahi 154 days ago
I agree with author's points. I think we need to take one more step, to examine this harmness issue. Social media are harmful, but why do we care about them more than about idk radio? Well, because social media is much more widespread. And why it is widespread? Because of the advertising. And incidentally the whole other host of harmful things is so impactful because of the ads - drugs, gambling, garbage foods, etc.

To combat Tiktok or smoking or gambling yourself into bankruptcy we don't need to ban each of these individually (and fail to do so in the process). We need to ban advertising of them.