There has been 15 more years of highly motivated psychologists tuning their social media systems to create addiction, time for those who've grown up through this to become adults, foreign interference with democracy etc.

Though I think banning it for children is the wrong approach. Ban the addictive and dangerous features for everyone, adults included — no more infinite scroll, and no more feeds showing content from outside social connections.

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pigpop an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> no more feeds showing content from outside social connections

So, kill all news agencies and reporters I guess? or would there be a carve out for incumbents so they can cement their market share? who controls the approval list?

	▲	drdexebtjl an hour ago \| parent [-]
		News agencies don’t do personalized curation. Every reader, at least from the same city, gets exactly the same content.

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umvi an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ban infinite scroll? Sounds like a slippery slope and also hard to enforce. I don't even know how you would craft such a law.

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shevy-java an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> tuning their social media systems to create addiction

Except this has nothing to do with social media nor with children nor with addiction.

	▲	Symbiote 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The first sentence of the article "under-16 social media ban".