Social media ban: responses to 10 common objections • Edrith (opens in new tab)

Edrith: I would like laws to have an impact. I’m also someone who is normally fairly opposed to safetyism and the nanny state, and supportive of parental choice. At the same time I’m not a full-on libertarian: I think some products should be age-gated (tobacco, gambling), regulated even for adults (cars, guns) or outright banned (drink-driving, heroin). To put my cards on the table, I believe smartphones in general, and social media in particular, have been a deeply harmful societal innovatio...