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The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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Instead of regulating people, how about we regulate big tech and their predatory business practices instead.
Right! You gotta stop it at the source. Not source being the way we interact, (phone/is) in taking the source of the issue... WHO creates the big addictive platform? Meta. Stop it there... If only it were so easy. Too bad there's a lot of backdoor policies & negotiations going on with big tech's influence.
I think we have to do both. Bans/restrictions to prevent immediate harms (or at least attempt to), and regulation to prevent future harms.