Good. For once I’ll agree with the governance in Utah and say we should ban social media for kids until they are 18.
The issue is billion dollar companies manipulating people for profit, not that people are able to communicate with each other over the internet. It's entirely possible to host communities that aren't corrupted by investors who want 1000x returns on their investments.
However, the Utah law defines social media as any online forum belonging to a site with more than 5m users that allows people to register accounts and interact with others[1]:
> (9) "Social media company" means a person or entity that:
> (a) provides a social media platform that has at least 5,000,000 account holders worldwide; and
> (b) is an interactive computer service.
> (10)(a) "Social media platform" means an online forum that a social media company makes available for an account holder to:
> (i) create a profile;
> (ii) upload posts;
> (iii) view the posts of other account holders; and
> (iv) interact with other account holders or users.
The law uses broad strokes to ban much more than just social media, it bans any group or community that might belong to a parent site that has a moderately-sized user base.
In effect, the law isolates anyone under 18 who might want to find community outside of their potentially abusive or extremist parents.
[1] https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title13/Chapter63/13-63-S101.html?...
If they’re bad, they’re bad for adults, too?
If they’re not inherently bad, then they can be safely used by responsible 16 year olds as well as responsible 18/19 year olds?
We let 16 year olds operate deadly machinery traveling at many meters per second. Social media is at least less potentially harmful than automobiles.
> Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
Essentially using questions to challenge assumptions in the form of argumentative dialogue.
This is a legitimate form of having a debate and it has been used for thousands of years. To compare it to the internet trolling practice of sealioning where somebody just asks for evidence repeatedly is disingenuous
Such as a bicycle. And not a car, in almost every country in the world.