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RE: Banning Social Media for Everyone Under 16
January 6, 2026 at 6:36 pm
How can anyone suggest government have more oversight on an individual's use of the Internet? Our president spent an hour posting nearly 90 bitchy posts on his "Truth Social" site just a couple late nights ago. Not only is he not qualified to oversee the usage of social media and the Internet in general, but he is amazing at picking the absolute worst people to head up government projects.
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RE: Banning Social Media for Everyone Under 16
January 6, 2026 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2026 at 7:30 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
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Quote:They [the UK] are banning junk food commercials.
This is not true.
Quote:They’ve already banned single use plastic
This is not true.
Quote:Ireland was the first country to ban all tobacco products in the year 2004.
This is not true.
Quote:On the other hand China has very strict rules on computer and internet usage that go back 20 years or more.
Strict rules are not the same as bans.
Quote:You might think they are very smart. But they have smoking bans only since 2010.
Smoking is not banned in China.
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RE: Banning Social Media for Everyone Under 16
January 7, 2026 at 3:35 pm
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Quote:I am not talking about the complete outlawing of any of these substances. I think this has to do more with limitation and reducing rather than forbidding these things completely.
Then you clearly don’t understand the difference between ‘a restriction’ and ‘a ban’.
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RE: Banning Social Media for Everyone Under 16
January 7, 2026 at 3:37 pm
(January 7, 2026 at 3:36 pm)Angrboda Wrote: What words do?
I will admit to enjoying his backpedals, though.
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RE: Banning Social Media for Everyone Under 16
January 7, 2026 at 3:47 pm
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RE: Banning Social Media for Everyone Under 16
January 7, 2026 at 3:50 pm
As if 16 year olds aren’t tech savvy enough to find their way onto an age restricted site.
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RE: Banning Social Media for Everyone Under 16
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 pm
When things get banned, they simply continue being done in secret. And no one more than the rich & powerful love doing things in secret.
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