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Comment by Calvin02 | Hacker News Reader

Why just limit it social media? Why not also include video games, streaming services, movies, etc.?

You can. You just have to make a strong enough argument to prove video games cause violence for a judge to let the case proceed. There's a reason it doesn't matter and it's not because video games are beyond banning.

Not for causing violence but for addiction. That’s a pretty easy argument and easy to prove causality (more game time = worse school/social life).

Why limit this logic to just social media sites and not other things that kids can be addicted to?

And mid-1980s heavy metal music too.

And those pesky books, the insolence!

  - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
  - The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Why not give people both the freedom and personal responsibility instead of making assigning parental duties to the government like China has recently?

Agreed. It should be applied to all services which are optimized for addiction. Social media is just the worst of the bunch due to its built in peer pressure.

My favorite is gacha games of any flavor. Please keep that crap out of the hands of children.

You could argue that reading is addictive, maybe some people find math so as well. I became addicted to computers when I was a kid and we didn't even have the internet. Sports can be addictive, along with dancing, or just plain socializing. Silly, yes, but you can bet that there'd be lawsuits claiming all sorts of things are addictive and some number will find sympathetic juries. Seems like a pretty bad idea to me.

There are age restrictions on casinos. And we have a rating system for movies and games to inform adults about the content.

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