@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Post #1643192
2026-04-24 15:18 UTC
@quinn
Whenever some politician or lobbyist group says children should be banned from social media, substitute “children” with “women” or “black people” and see if you still think it's a good idea. See if you think justifications like “their developing brains” still hold up.
Because I assure you, if social media was invented a century ago, the proposals to ban women and black people from it would have used the exact same excuses.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-24 15:35
@quinn As for torturing and sickening people: I was bullied in school at the age of 12. After that, my only source of friendship and conversation was online. My main source of joy was tinkering with computers. If I had been banned from computers and the Internet, as is now being proposed for children that age, I would have had nothing to do and no one but my parents to talk to. *That* is torture. *That* would have made me sick. And that isn't being perpetrated by social media companies.