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Subject: Re: Banning Social Media For Under-16s
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 00:04:36 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 17 May 2025 14:55:17 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Which is why online controls won't work, because they won't have support
> of many parents... 

It is a given, is it not, that those below a certain age are not of 
sufficient maturity to make certain decisions for themselves. That’s why 
our species has the concept of “parents” and “parenting” at all. Only 
nowadays, society has become so complex that the parents of a child 
cannot, on their own, supply sufficient guidance and care to ensure the 
child grows up the right way. That’s why we have schools and 
schoolteachers, for one thing.

As the saying goes, “it takes a village to raise a child”. And as Marshall 
McLuhan pointed out, that “village” is nowadays well and truly global.

> When I was 16 I snuck into movie theatres to watch x-rated movies, which
> is probably more harmful than watching them on one's phone and certainly
> requires far more effort.

And therefore you did it less. That’s the difference.

> The only solution is to actually educate kids about sex ...

Some right-wingers have religious objections to that though, don’t they?