[epolanski]

I'm very conflicted when it comes to these bans.

1. On one side I understand the spirit, but the demographic that is most victim of socials in my experience are 50 yo+. At family dinners, etc, it's them, not the kids, being unable to not be perma distracted by the phone. Even when they are not distracted they consistently need to take photos or show you something on their phone or start face calling somebody.

2. This unavoidably spreads the requirement for ID verification to the whole population, not just kids de facto further advancing government's control of communications.

3. Social medias should've been regulated at the algorithm level. Or, like in South Korea, they could've implemented hard coded daily time limits of usage of the applications.

4. Youngsters will just migrate to platforms that don't fall under the ban making the enforcement.

5. Bans achieve little but further increase the appeal for these platforms. Instead of investing in education for the youth such as longer school days with more sports or cultural activities the government chooses limitations and provides the wrong incentives.