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Alcohol can straight up kill you or impair your judgement when operating anything including your own body.

TikTok can distract you or direct opinions.

Or to put it another way, it wasn't social media that killed Avicci. It was drinking.

Inane, reductive comparison.

Wrong comparison, try “violent movies” or “porn” instead of alcohol, then you’re still within first amendment territory.

Unless we go from “money is speech” to “alcohol loosens lips, ergo it is speech”…

Both you and falcolas are off base.

Porn restriction for minors is not controversial, legally. Your first amendment argument will go nowhere.

So then the question is, should something that harms young minds be restricted?

You can argue that TikTok doesn't, and that's a fair argument to make. But if your argument is "yes, but it's free speech" then I think you lose.

Well banning alcohol is about keeping poison out of the hands of developing minds. Wait, shit! Idk

Both cigarettes and alcohol are now 21 minimum.

> In the United States, the age to buy tobacco products is 21 in all states as of 2020.

Huh, TIL.