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Why ban at all? Enforcing it is an issue. Privacy-intrusion is a given for everyone, not just kids. It probably would not work, similarly to any related bans. Again, why ban at all? Let the parents do the parenting... I guess? Or ban having sex without the use of contraceptives if you are so keen on banning.

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It's incredibly hard for parents to intervene. Even if you ban your child from using it, since every other kid is using it, the harmful effects are still there.

The best you can do is try to explain and contextualise everything your kid might be seeing, which is very hard to do.

Also, not all parents are engaged with their kids as well as they should be. Having bad parents doesn't mean you're not worth protecting.

> Or ban having sex without the use of contraceptives if you are so keen on banning.

I'm not sure what that means.

Who else would it be if not parents, the Government? How would that really go? Would we really have to provide our ID to Facebook and such? That would suck.

The government checks or disallows many things, i.e. drugs.

Individualism is strong in the US, but if parents sucks kids suffer.

Yes, the war on drugs has been really successful. I certainly want governments doing more of that!

Libertarians hate to hear this but the government actually regulate lots of things, not just drugs. Many of these regulations are very successful.

There's a difference between regulating and banning, or outright fighting a "war" on something. The latter causing far worse societal problems.

The disallowing of drugs has not fared any better than disallowing alcohol did.

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