The parent comment suggested of the sort. There is obviously more porn on porn sites than on moderated social media platforms. Pointing out that some porn occasionally evades filters on Facebook for a couple days doesn’t mean social media sites and porn sites are fully equivalent.

> For me, social media is the worst thing we ever created.

Calling social media the “worst thing we ever created” as a comment on a social media site is deeply ironic.

I can’t believe how many commenters are assuming these laws will only apply to sites they don’t personally use. The amount of “good riddance” commenting from people inviting heavy handed internet ID checking regulation because they can’t imagine it would ever affect them personally is really scary.

So your argument is that hackernews is similar to TikTok and instagram?

I completely disagree.

The core of HN is not self promotion, narration, or comparison - the very things driving teen suicides up from social media use.

I further suggest most of the replies to my original comment are willfully ignoring the data the Australian govt is citing for these bans, and what psychologists worldwide are citing.

None of the discussion here so far even touches on a possible solution to a problem that is driving measurable deaths.

Instead we have a collection of false equivalence and abdication of social responsibility by big tech, which is fairly on brand for hn and frankly intellectually lazy from my perspective.