Adam Dalliance on Nostr: Got a bit ranty on a chat thread elsewhere yesterday when some were arguing for ...
Got a bit ranty on a chat thread elsewhere yesterday when some were arguing for social media age-gates and the like.
Summarized here into a blog post.
[The Age-Gate Rant](
https://dalliance.net/blog/agegate/ )
> The kids are not okay, and lots of people seem to think it’s the kid’s phones and social media that’s doing it so lets simply ban kids from social media.
> Simple!
> Only: it doesn’t sound very simple to me.
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