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That would unironically be a good way of dealing with this. However it would probably be seen as just as hostile.

I'm very against banning websites, however social media as a whole is doing detrimental harm to children and adults alike so I would not shed a tear as long as we also ban meta/tiktok/YouTube shorts.

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> however social media as a whole is doing detrimental harm to children and adults alike so I would not shed a tear as long as we also ban meta/tiktok/YouTube shorts.

You would then have to ban the VPNs as usage will just accelerate if that happens.

The result would be no better than what happened to TikTok when that went offline in the US.

Yes, since you have to provide proof of age to watch porn now most people have a VPN. I'm not sure I advocate blocking it, just it would not particularly bother me incrementally at this point, but it would be unfair to single X out as if Meta are perfectly fine.

What even is there on twitter these days except neo-nazi hatemongering and LLM generated child porn?

Russian and Israeli bots pretending to be Americans mostly, and brain dead americans who didn't yet realize they're interacting with bots

Oh, and people who want to be famous political pundits, but aren't yet famous political pundits.

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