I believe every government disenfranchises young people because they are young.

Its not about intelligence. Else a whole lot of over-age-of-majority wouldn't pass either.

Theres also no old-age cutoff, when their mental faculties significantly decline.

Yeah, the voting majority keeps 'under age' from voting. But at least in the USA, we have children as young as 11 being tried as adults but with none of the benefits.

You’re right that it shouldn’t be about intelligence! Overall definitely unfair.

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After posting, I questioned whether political speech is special. Like should fifteen-year-olds who love film be able to make videos about them and get lots of followers… but I couldn’t be thought police. So maybe-

The platform just has to be designed non-addictively.

Is this accurate?: In reality, Facebook was so powerful the regulators could never make them stop at any turn. Now that they finally got sued big time, we finally educated ourselves enough as constituents to raise enough of a stink to trigger straight up bans. (educated ourselves, or politicians legislate based how bad headlines are, or it was so egregious it genuinely ticked them off… …)