Social media ban for under 16’s. Boo!
Social media addiction affects kids and parents alike, and proposed bans miss the real culprit: toxic business models.
The Problem with Banning under 16's
Banning kids from mainstream social media criminalizes families while ignoring adult vulnerabilities. You really think we adults are able to resist the influences of 10,000 psychologists from FaceBook, TikTok and Twitter trying to addict then manipulate us into eating E-numbers and voting against our best interests in the next election?
Governments dodge the core issue—platforms like Twitter and FaceBook amplify rage for profit, harvest data, and turn users into products. Profit = rising GDP figures and tax revenue – a government’s lifeblood.
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