One 'better option' would be to hold parents more responsible for crimes that their children commit. And to broaden the types of abuse that the state can respond to—if parents let their children habitually drink alcohol to excess or smoke tobacco underage, social services tend to get involved.

Another 'better option' would be to prosecute tech companies that intentionally create addictive, harmful content.

Banning social media use for anyone unwilling to hand over their secure information to private third-parties seems like one of the 'worst options' to me.

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9dev 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> hold parents more responsible for crimes that their children commit.

Oh yeah, punishing children for mistakes they need to make to learn not to make them and moving responsibility from parents to the government sounds like a great idea.

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pjc50 8 hours ago | parent [-]

They were talking about actual serious crime, like the 13 year old knife murderer in Glasgow, who will undoubtedly have "previous".

(There's a bottom 5% of kids whose parents are basically completely negligent or actively abusive, and they end up causing basically all of the problems)

	▲	oneeyedpigeon 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think that person was agreeing with me, sarcastically, because they're putting forward the opposite points to the ones I was making.