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That would do nothing to help with the pressure kids will feel if others are on social media.

You cannot regulate peer pressure, even with the complete ban you would still have kids using other platforms for social interaction and have peer pressure, like on roblox or whatever

There's always going to be 'the actual Internet' accessible by kids, as in non-corporate, non-walled gardens social forums. Chans, IRC, etc.

What this effectively does is disadvantage large corporate social media companies to the benefit of smaller, more decentralized alternatives.

To which the anarchist in me says: fuck yes.

> You cannot regulate ...

This has never stopped anyone. For example, Climate change legislation makes little sense unless implemented worldwide. War crime or anti-terror legislation doesn't really make sense unless it's implemented across borders (and pretending doesn't count. Nobody's even talking about arresting Putin, or anyone else for that matter). Taxation ...

Why is resisting peer pressure during childhood bad?

Social isolation is bad for kids. We learned this during COVID lockdowns.

Social media is anything but social and promotes bad brain development for children.

Change my mind.

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