Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns

> And who's checking that ID? In what form is the record of it being kept, and where? I would not use a device that had this sort of requirement. There's too much surveillance as it is.

I would do it on a state-by-state level. Your phone verifies your age with, say, the state of California one time, and then it's set and California has no idea what you visit or why.

And if you don't like this due to hacking risk; remember that the State of California literally has your photo, social security number, address, height, weight, gender, and more. Hacking risk increase is minuscule from what it already is. And not just California - any state can look you up if they want; otherwise, how would traffic tickets or arrests for interstate drivers happen?

> The solution to this with children is easy -- don't get them a smartphone.

Or we ban children from possession or purchase of smartphones under a certain age. Which, I would be favor of, but may be too politically unpalatable.

Everyone I know started drinking at like 14/15. Same for sexual activity. We just start when we feel the need, not when we are “allowed”.

Do these limits actually do anything?

At some point you have to weigh the risks. Adults destroying society is ok, but young people watching make up videos is somehow worse?

I think there is a point to restricting social media for adults. They have more to lose and are far, far more dangerous.

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It’s not social media though; it’s the shit show they see through it.

That’s not going anywhere.

Exploitation of young agency to prop up value stores and ideals of elders is what awaits them away from the screen.

Setting themselves aside to clean up the toxic mess of dying generations awaits them.

This may come as a shock but I don’t feel an obligation to your existence specifically.

Look at the public dismiss public healthcare and demand the kids work just as we did; we censored TV coddling their sensibilities and office jobs to protect the hallucinated value of private corporations.

I feel as much obligation to the “American Civic Life” hallucination as I do a more traditional religion. ACL has just taken hold of the biology religion did; causing people to hallucinate I owe them recognizing some spoken meme like “this person has high net worth.”

That’s thought policing. Western society is a police state and it spends billions on hypernormalized messaging to insure it stays that way.

Not one person on this forum is an obligation to me. You’re all hallucinating authority.

Just like the parents you’re complaining about, you’re going to ignore the idea you have real obligation to yourself and society owes you nothing.

Vain coddled primate; do it my way! … No. You’re not a divine mandate. Grow that potato.

> Remember that the NIAID and the SG both came out against masks early in the pandemic with the head of the former saying that he did so knowingly to control mask supply.

https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...

> "Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply. And we wanted to make sure that the people namely, the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected." - Fauci