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A big part of why social media websites/apps (FB and WhatsApp) are banned is because they are the central means of communication and agglomeration.

Forcing people to slow down in their ability to react to a massive amount of information/emotion, by letting them sit on for a while may not be a bad idea.

All too often a flurry of incomplete information leads only to a large degree of noise that organically sorts itself out inside of a couple of days.



See: 9/11 Trading Halt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_effects_of_the_Septem...

Giving people time to think and force them to slow down is a proven method to prevent all out chaos.




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