> Your sci-fi distopia flash fiction is compelling, but not actually on topic in this discussion.
> "Think of the children" is weaponized for censorious purposes, but also the harms of social media are well documented (unlike many of the other moral panics fuelled by this phrase).
> I'm not sure a blanket under-16s ban on all social media is the right answer, but there are really good reasons why people support this that you need to engage with to have a useful discussion here.
So basically for everyone even with modest pattern recognition abilities the template used here should be crystal clear, which goes along the lines of
- I'm kinda with you (even though you are stupid and emotion-driven);
- But your point is totally invalid because you should be humiliated by the sheer number of your opponents, which renders you small and negligible;
- Your opponents have very good reasons to support any fascism that is able to address their reaction to prefabricated problems with prefabricated solutions, and you've got to support that too if you want to be heard.
I'm pretty sure these threads are chock full of shills, because one can't rob people of freedom without significant narraive steering efforts.