Comment by stackghost
14 days ago
What a terrible and entirely unconvincing argument.
"$unhealthy_thing is not subject to restrictions, therefore $other_unhealthy_thing should also not be"? lol. lmao, even.
Should we let children purchase cigarettes? Alcohol? Cannabis? Cocaine?
The BMI epidemic in America tells me maybe we should ban sugary drinks.
At some point, society draws a line between what it deems acceptable and what it does not. In two generations it is virtually assured that we/our grandchildren will look back on Facebook and TikTok the way we currently look at the tobacco industry. The way I know this is because the CEOs don't let their kids dogfood their products. Famously, Steve Jobs wouldn't let his kids have an iPhone. Mark and Cecilia didn't let their kids use socials.
These are bad products designed to be deliberately addictive, and it turns out they're really only good at making people feel shitty and giving teen girls eating disorders.
Nobody would accept that we let criminals and pedophiles run schools.
Meanwhile there is this digital world that children reside in that is a completely lawless anarchy...
Something will have to be done about it one way or another.
Online isn't school. The comparison is offensive.
Your kids don't need to be online like they need to be in school. To suggest that they do is utterly ludicrous.
It's a disgrace.
When parents can't take care of their children the government takes over. Children are the greatest treasure of society and our entire system revolves around teaching and protecting them. The disgrace is giving tech companies one iota of power.
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> Should we let children purchase cigarettes? Alcohol? Cannabis? Cocaine?
No. An that is illegal in France. Somewhere from 1960 if I recall corectly.
Sugary drinks on other are somehow OK with the french and Macron in particular.
Goodness it's almost as if society is imperfect.
Righ! And the best place to start fixing it a cancerogen France is famous for, which is wine. I guess that will be the second thing the french parliament going to do - banning the sale of wine. Health is very important, I guess everybody is in agreement with that.
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