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If you want to ban your kids from using social media, you don't need to wait for the government to do it for you.

Far more dangerous than social media is this increasingly pervasive attitude that the government is responsible for parenting your kids.

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I don't think the government should ban social media, but doing it on an individual level won't work. You either turn your kid into a social pariah for being the only one not on social media, or they will just figure out a way to get into it anyway.

Ok, I'll amend my statement to mention an even more dangerous and increasingly pervasive attitude: the government should parent your kids, so I can parent my kids!

Like I said, the government shouldn't ban social media. I don't want the government parenting my kids or anyone else's. I want parents parenting their own kid.

But the government can certainly make it better by banning things that are universally bad.

I'm quite glad they kids can't legally get cigarettes. Makes my job as a parent a lot easier. Same with alcohol. I wish they wouldn't let them get coffee either.

Yes, you want the government parenting your (and others) kids.

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