[dgxyz]

Way to cherry pick citations. Have you considered writing a meta analysis for a journal and fail to disclose your interests and funding? That'd really top it off.

I can do the same if I want the other way. But it's not worth my time.

[heavyset_go]

You're going to drop a bombshell like "social media is as bad as alcohol and cigarettes, we need to ban it" and not provide any evidence?

There are a lot of strong feelings around social media, and I'm no fan, but I'm not going to walk head first into a moral panic, or participate in witch hunt, without knowing the facts.

In the end, ad hominem arguments don't affect the validity of evidence. I was hoping to have an interesting discussion, but I see that if you aren't politically correct on this topic, evidence will be outright dismissed and the messenger shot for delivering it.

[dgxyz]

I think you went off the rails a bit there. Also hyper focused on a small part of the comment rather than the general issue which is somewhat unfair.

The point was simply things which are costly to society should be taxed. I am not comparing each thing to each other.

[heavyset_go]

Sorry, I meant my original reply to be to this, not your post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514116

[dzhiurgis]

It doesn't need a multiple research papers to figure out social media is a complete cesspool tho.