For example, [banning social media for kids](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/10/australia-children-social-media-ban-age-limit-under-16-details). Is that really the best solution we can come up with? Did we have no alternative to this draconian and desperate measure?
According to Reporters Without Borders, [we’re already doing poorly in terms of internet freedom](https://web.archive.org/web/20120323215225/http://march12.rsf.org/i/Report_EnemiesoftheInternet_2012.pdf) – and that’s even before this social media ban.
I’m not promoting social media for kids. I just feel concerned that either we somehow got into a situation where this is necessary, or that our policymakers are too dumb to implement with a better solution.
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Im not sure the aim is to reduce crime. Its more for the mental health of pre-teens
I guess we are only now discovering the long term effects of social media on young minds and the methods of dealing with it going into the future are experimental at best. If it doesn’t work, try something else. They must have discovered something alarming enough to take this drastic measure though.
Ah.. because it’s not about reducing crime.
Won’t someone think of the children is a distraction from watching our nation being flushed down the toilet.