Its not good faith because its already broken by vpn. And its forcing kids with no credit cards to download free and malware ridden ones. How would you measure any level of success from this initiative? Doing something isnt a solution if it has tons of bad sideeffects

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Y_Y 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> its forcing kids with no credit cards to download free and malware ridden ones

It very much is not.

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Manuel_D 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It very much is. Free VPNs almost always have some sort of catch. E.g. HolaVPN users agree in the ToS to become an exit node for other VPN users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN)

If social media is so compelling, then teens almost certainly will take whatever steps are necessary to access it.

	▲	Y_Y 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Proton has a good free offering. That's not the point though. The kids can just not get a VPN, and instead do something else with their time.

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yfw 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Because social media is so easy to cut out you dont need to ban it or its so addictive you do?

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dghlsakjg 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Its not good faith because its already broken by vpn.

One does not follow from the other.

We make speeding illegal even though even the most affordable cars can trivially bypass all speed restrictions. It doesn't mean that the efforts to curb speeding are in bad faith just because it is still possible to bypass speed reduction rules.

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yfw 3 days ago | parent [-]

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	▲	dghlsakjg 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> That[']s a great comparison. Thank you. I thought it was a pretty good analogy, too. >Wonder why banning homelessness works so well[?] Oh we don[']t ban it? Must be because we don[']t care enough[.] I do not understand what point you are trying to make about homelessness, and how that would be at all relevant to keeping teenagers from having accounts on social media. That's not a great comparison. I was just pointing out that the existence of ways to violate a law, does not in any way, mean that passing the law or enforcing it is a bad faith effort.

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idkfasayer 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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