| ▲ | jonathanstrange 3 hours ago |
| How about taking some personal responsibility for your life? This shouldn't even be a consideration concerning adults. |
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| ▲ | macintux 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's clear by now that the societal impact is significant. I can banish all the social networks from my life and they'll still be corrupting the political process, promoting divisive content, etc. |
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| ▲ | rootusrootus 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > This shouldn't even be a consideration concerning adults. Ban the boxes for kids |
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| ▲ | jonathanstrange 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I was replying specifically to someone who insinuated that all social media (or, at least, all supposedly addictive social media) should be banned for everyone, including adults. To me, it's a matter of personal freedom that they shouldn't be banned for adults. |
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| ▲ | actionfromafar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I assume you are also for heroin vending machines at every school corner if you watch a 30 second ad slot. You don't have to use them, you know. |
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| ▲ | jonathanstrange an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | No, but I'm not against selling alcohol and fast sports cars to adults, for example. I'm not very fond of a nanny state that prohibits almost everything to adults "for their sake" and because the government knows so much better. | | |
| ▲ | rootusrootus 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It is somewhat more challenging for the vendor selling alcohol or sports cars to manipulate your thinking, so the analogy is strained. | | |
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| ▲ | jMyles 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Your extreme example of a policy regarding distribution of heroin is far from perfect, but also far better than prohibition, which has visited upon the world more death, disease, crime, and cartel enrichment than perhaps any other policy in history. But surely we can do better than either of these extremes. |
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