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.