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Regulate Social Media? Jonathan Haidt Debates Robby Soave

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Is the Government Trying to Stop the Harms Caused by Social Media?

I totally agree that parents should feel empowered to not have their kids on social media. But i doesn't seem like, doesn't call out for a government solution. In fact, and this would be my argument against some of the age restriction type things john is talking about. It seems to me that probably the best way to preserve interest in instagram would make it like, sexy and dangerous and scary. That could actually drum up or increase interest in it. Why don't we just like, let it kind of stop being cool on its own, as all prior social media sights eventually do? I was using my space and aowell instant messenger when i was a kid. They are gone.

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