[bcjdjsndon]

> The internet multiplied and empowered many things, chief amongst them is human cruelty and apathy.

Bare in mind we aren't banning the internet, just kids on social media.

> Take that and multiply that by like a billion and that might come close to painting a fair picture of the internet

A billion people have died from.... the internet? Youve GOT to explain this one lol how exactly?

[notepad0x90]

> Bare in mind we aren't banning the internet, just kids on social media.

It's neither. it isn't social media only, there will be various sites that are age restricted, similar to IRL businesses.

> A billion people have died from.... the internet? Youve GOT to explain this one lol how exactly?

I didn't claim 'died', you assumed. I meant sum total of suffering and pain facilitated by it. The internet is just a "road", except it connected everyone. sex, violence, extortion, slavery, you name it. a decent argument could be made that in the past one or two decades alone more slaves were trafficked and traded than in the entire history of the transatlantic trade, except smartphones, wifi and 5G were used to facilitate trade and allow real-time live HD monitoring of the "merchandize" and advertisement to buyers thereof. think of it in terms of graph theory perhaps, edges and nodes and all. just in the past 30 or so years the planet's population doubled and all those "nodes" have the capability to form edges with all other nodes on demand, interact with and in engage in unregulated commerce (cryptocurrency doesn't help either).

[bcjdjsndon]

> think of it in terms of graph theory perhaps, edges and nodes and all.

So we should ban letters as well because of all the badness they facilitated? Lots of crime has used telephones, we should also ban telephones yes? Because graph theory's etc?

[notepad0x90]

again, bad faith argument.

as you said, the internet isn't being banned, so why would you stretch what i said to mean "ban letters"? sending letters to minors might require age verification if it were a real problem, you already need to verify your age to open a cell service, children can't sign up for mobile plans. you're trying to make this about something it's not so you can win an argument, I don't care who wins the argument, let's solve the problem. Your whataboutism doesn't have solutions attached to it, only winning of internet points.

[bcjdjsndon]

> The internet is just a "road", except it connected everyone. sex, violence, extortion, slavery, you name it.

The internet doesn't cause slavery. It's facilitates it in the sense that its a communications network. To say THE INTERNET caused slavery is like saying telephones cause drug dealing because dealers use phones to contact drug users.

> sending letters to minors might require age verification if it were a real problem

Lol