I'd rather we see strict rules and limits on how social media works and so on.

Kids have infinite time and resourcefulness, they'll just use something that is potentially even worse than social media now.

I really hope they figure it out. It would be an amazing piece of evidence about the harms of social media and we’d be closer to banning it for everyone.

I legitimately think that social media should be wiped from existence. Of course there could still be group chats, forums, blogs but we need to move away from having everyone’s relationships and desire for community be so easily capable of being exploited for ad revenue.

Think of banning all tobacco besides pipes, hand rolled ones and cigars. Yes, you’d still have people smoking but you’d have much less of it. Similarly, there’s no need for instagram, Facebook, TikTok or twitter to exist.

Perhaps any law that bans social media also makes hacker news and Reddit illegal! I would be alright with this personally. Hackernews could be replaced with a newsletter and Reddit would be better off if it were federated.