Why do all these places want to ban social media for people under whatever age?

I do not imagine that idea will go over well with the tech billionaires, I mean under 18 is probably half their users.

I am way over 18 so it doesn't affect me but if I were under 18, I would be p*ssed. It's like ANYthing kids enjoy, the govt wants to take it away.

I can't imagine that being enforceable, and might even be counter-productive by the "forbidden fruit" principle; but I suppose the idea is to stop children reading harmful contents.


"Harmful contents"... No - not just sexual pornography; and their victims include adults as well as children .

Such as material encouraging hatred and division, antisocial "~isms", mysogyny, violence, cruelty; both in self-serving fora and in illicit on-line sales of weapons and drugs.

Material designed by liars to deter sick people from proper medical advice and treatment - even for serious diseases like cancer - or from basic preventative treatment such as vaccinations and simple self-care.

Material encouraging low self-esteem, self-injury, eating disorders from starvation to extreme obesity, "recreational" drug-taking, addictive gambling, even suicide.

What are the mentality and motives behind such contents? They are cowardly, yes, and some rely on very shallow political dogmas, but is the drive really just one of control?

Some of course is nakedly commercial even where vaguely legal. The on-line gambling trade, particularly is utterly shameless and amoral, deliberately and carefully encouraging users to become addicted to the point of bankruptcy.


A better approach might be genuine and workable age-verifying as indeed many people and not only in just one State in just one country do advocate, but I am not sure how it would work short of enforcing subscriptions on the sites. Which might of course drastically cut the number of users - so cutting the incomes of the sites' owners.

The real villains are those owners, the publishers; the handful of very wealthy people who own the huge [anti-]"social media" companies but lack the courage to take responsibility for them, hence encouraging wilfully dangerous material. They should automatically not only "take down" wrongful material but name the originators, close their entire accounts and ban them for life.

Idk good luck with that .. i presume they are trying to protect them but what we need is more cops online and more internet safety protocol.. maybe a license to use the internet 😏

That is not the role of government, especially American government, where we are a self governing people. Parents are perfectly capable of determining what is good and not good for their children, just as parents have for thousands of years.

Sounds like a hard agenda to pass now that the genie is out of the bottle, however, it would have been nice to have that policy set back in 1996

Good luck with that..😷

I think republicans answer to everything is just to ban it as if that's going to stop them from getting on it lol.

Maybe it's the best Americans can do, since there's no way to have helpful and socially positive social media in their country.

I don't support it.

In a way I think it's better for the kids , if they can't read and learn from stuff written by d####ss adults.

I just joined reddit, I want to unsee some of the stuff I have read.

Waste of time and money.

there's going to be a lot of identify theft

Well, they can try, but kids are way more savy with technology than adults are. They'll just find a way around it.

Bans based on location are irrelevant as every teen already knows how to circumvent them.

Seems pretty authoritarian but then social media is pretty evil so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

They'll just migrate to places like SW..

Brainwashing.

Really hard to care about anything that happens in Texas. Same with North Korea.

As soon as I figure out who Texans are pretending to be when you see them walking around town wearing handguns in holsters with cowboy hats on their heads and belt buckles the size of hubcaps, looking more like stand-ins for a John Wayne movie that's filming in town than anyone who's actually real who's over the age of 18, I'll let you know what I think of Texas trying to ban social media accounts for anyone under 18.

What is this country becoming, the Taliban???

Underage kids creating accounts are gonna be like:

Won’t work there will be a way around it