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depression existed before smartphones, but now everyone can record viral tiktoks lamenting their depression for views/engagement while other depressed people consume it


Worse than that, there's sites where they can discuss suicide and get advice on methods. Now maybe adults should be free to discuss these things, but it's certainly something that young people should be protected from.


The alt.suicide.holiday FAQ has existed for a very long time.


USENET was generally known to and read only by adults. That doesn't apply to youth today like machine-gun-cadence, trivially accessible, algo-driven audiovisual content on Facebook, Youtube, Tiktok etc. Is.


Because back then mostly adults were online. But besides that, the FAQ is also a web site.


And? Do documents suddenly become suitable for kids when they — the documents, not the kids — are old enough?


The information has always been openly available, that‘s not new.


That is a restatement of a clause in the question (document is old), not an answer (is it suitable for kids).




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