That being said, kids 100% should not be on social media. I think this has been proven time and time again at this point, no?

Why? Isn't socializing the base of all society? Aren't social media the privileged way people do socialize nowadays? Why should kids be kept at bay? Is it for their safety? But then...

• Aren't most kind of abuses happening within families and not online? So, should families be forbidden to kids too and should they be raised collectively, by some institution, instead? But then...
• Aren't schools (an institution that already deal with kids a few hours every single day of the week) the second place in importance in which kids can sustain abuses of many form? Should kids be kept out of schools too, then?

Those are too absurd examples (hopefully no one will consider those ideas seriously) of the real absurdity of the entire debate regarding social media. At least, imho.

If kid's safety was the issue with social media we should change those social media and the way we, the adults, the ones showing the example to kids, are using them. But we're not. Instead, we're making it illegal for kids to use those shitty social media... making them even more enticing to use!

It looks so much like the prohibition (and we all know how well it turned, and what was the real motivation) it would be funny if it was not so sad for the kids having to deal with that hopelessly clueless adults around them.