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Replace "social media" with "alcohol" or "sexual activity."

If you are a child, limits are a very good thing. If you are an adult, take responsibility for the stupidity of your own actions.

Also, please don't do ad-hominem. For "boomers flaming antivax conspiracies," there's plenty of blame to go around and more than meets the eye. Our health experts also did crap like this that got people who listened to them killed: https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898?lang=en



Everyone I know started drinking at like 14/15. Same for sexual activity. We just start when we feel the need, not when we are “allowed”.

Do these limits actually do anything?

At some point you have to weigh the risks. Adults destroying society is ok, but young people watching make up videos is somehow worse?

I think there is a point to restricting social media for adults. They have more to lose and are far, far more dangerous.


> Everyone I know started drinking at like 14/15.

Very few people I know started drinking that young. Though most had had a drink by 19.


> young people watching make up videos is somehow worse

Well, this is a straw man. If you look at any statistic, they are hardly just watching make up videos...




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