Social media is full of extremist and untrue content of all types. Antivax or free birth content are just two small examples of viral content that is untrue and kills people. It has a very negative effect on adults, and adults at least have brains that are fully-developed.

Exposing kids to the firehose of misinformation on social media just poisons their brains. Political agitation is mostly political misinformation. Even among the causes online that I agree with, most of the content online is deeply biased, one-sided or inaccurate.

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nemomarx 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can guess exactly how authorities would define "political agitation", though. dangerous things to allow them to ban.

	▲	andrewmutz 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think we should allow the government to ban political agitation, but I do think its fine to allow the government to ban children using social media

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stinkbeetle 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The most dangerous, untrue, and extremist content I've ever seen has come from governments.

Lies upon lies about WMDs and going to war for our freedoms and how we need to "liberate" Libya and fund and arm rebels and insurgents. Millions of people killed, trillions of dollars wasted and stolen.

Someone who is not completely trusting of politicians or pharmaceutical corporations, or who wants to give birth like 99.999% of humanity has, really are so far down the list of "dangerous misinformation" they don't even register.