> In an attempt to not deliberately misinterpret you, […] Kids need access to YouTube in order to talk to their family?

Your attempt has failed; obviously I’m not taking about YouTube, but about things like WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, Instagram, and other social media which families actually use to talk to each other on a dialy basis.

Perhaps you don’t use these, but most of the world population uses some of these (or something similar) to keep in touch with family and friends.

Heck, even when I was a teen (before smartphones) I kept in touch with friends over social media. We’d even organise meeting up through it.

Out of all of those, only Instagram is on the list (or I have heard has complied despite not being on it).

You seem to be confusing messaging software and social media ?

Do (the others than Instagram) have an algorithmic feed, or (effectively) do not work without making an account ?

I guess that there's also Discord (that isn't on the list but has still complied) that is in an awkward in-between ?

(IMHO both Instagram and Discord ought to be banned anyway, for everyone, because they're deep web platforms that are owned by Meta/Tencent, and are therefore a threat to the open web and liberal democracy.)

Seems like you're conflating chat with social media. If we throw out the posts and dopamine abuse I don't think we lose much.