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Very weird feeling I have here, in China. For once, I feel it's the americans following us. What's next, limiting online video game time ??

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I feel like it is a universally constant thing for some subset of people to want their government to “force those other people to do what I think they should be doing”.

The only the US does relatively well is to provide mechanisms to reverse course when these things happen. Which is also why a lot of changes end up in gridlock.

Which I suspect will happen soon in this case.

I'd guess it's more of a "make sure our children grow up into healthy working adults, instead of more minimum wage tech addicts".

When I was a teenager my screen time was the maximum feasible. Now my average screentime is between 12 and 14 hours a day. I'm yet another gainfully employed software engineer.

I don't think there is any empirical evidence correlating tech addiction to income, but if there was I wouldn't be surprised if the relationship was positive.

Who is going to make them grow up a particular way?

For me this is a public health measure. If video games were shown to have a similarly destructive effect on our youth I'd consider regulating that too.

We are talking about banning china owned TikTok in the USA, which would be like banning US owned Facebook in china. So ya, maybe you have a point?

Limiting the platforms of celebrities and influencers?

Oh no, that'd be limiting Freedom Speeches™.

But the US Constitution doesn't guarantee anyone will be listening.

That would also be good. I know people who have shit their pants during RuneScape sessions. They can’t use it responsibly.

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