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“Think of the children” isn’t really a good argument for censoring completely legal political discourse, which is what has been happening.

They are admitting that there has been a global push against free speech on these platforms.

>There is research that shows exposure to suicide and self injury content increases suicidal ideation.

I mean do you really need research to show this link? Of course it does.

We are okay with slapping an “R” rating on movies and allowing parents to be the ones who decide what content their kids can see. Why can’t we decide that parents also need to be the ones to stop their kids from consuming bad content on social media?




Automatically demoting, not recommending and adding "mark as disturbing" screens is what's going away - which is akin to the "R" rating.

But at this point, I'm siding with the "no social media for adolescents" people more and more.




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