LogFAQs > #979347538

I hate to see all the Boomer takes on this and the lack of nuance.

Yes, social media can be very harmful, especially to kids, teens, and young adults.

Yes, social media is often full of conspiracies, disinfo, and misinfo.

Yes social media has been a bomb dropped on society without testing or awareness of the wide range of effects it would have.

Yes, it can also be an incredibly powerful tool to spread information in a way that bypasses siloes, regulation, and suppression.

Yes, TikTok Zuccs up people's info in a creepy and potentially dystopian way.

Yes, it's functionally owned by an authoritarian foreign government.

Yes, a government could hypothetically have an interest in wanting to regulate social media to reduce its most harmful effects.

Yes, the government is shamelessly ignoring the harm that domestic social media does and the spying they do, likely because they benefit from it.

Yes, the government shows little interest in reducing the harm from social media and just wants to hurt a geopolitical enemy and take the data for themselves.

Yes, this could have serious free speech implications and is partially a culture war issue to prevent young people from becoming less bigoted.

Yes, this is something that would only happen to something young people use and never to something older people use.

No, all social media is not going to be banned.