It’s an authoritarian power grab veiled as protecting the children, an ancient play from volumes scribed in clay.

Social Media, as it’s currently implemented, is an overwhelmingly negative to everyone, but banning it for anyone is a wilfully ignorant and lazy action.

The legitimate platforms have been gifted an abdication of responsibility to make their platforms safer, and the illegitimate ones have gained a greater potential audience.

The adult action would be to require the platforms prove they’re prioritising safety above profit, with embarrassingly transparent audit visibility; but this is the antithesis of how government and corporate entities are structured, and such measures are denigrated and dismissed.