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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Creator Studio Communities Premium Profile More Post Kavish Garg @thatkavish Post See new posts Conversation Sam Bowman @s8mb Completely right. Growing up in Cork in the early 2000s meant not knowing many people my age interested in history, economics, politics, or the genres of music I was into. If it wasn't for online discussion forums (the contents of which have mostly shifted on to sites like Twitter, Reddit, Discord, Youtube) I would have been much more intellectually isolated and less able to explore those interests. Supporters of social media bans for teenagers must have a very narrow idea of what both under-16s and the internet are like. I feel bad for the kids whose parents won't help them circumvent these laws (as mine would have, thankfully). Quote Poppy Coburn @kafkaswife · Jan 16 A social media ban for under 16s would be actually-existing populism: terri

Sam Bowman @s8mb Completely right. Growing up in Cork in the early 2000s meant not knowing many people my age interested in history, economics, politics, or the genres of music I was into. If it wasn't for online discussion forums (the contents of which have mostly shifted on to sites like Twitter, Reddit, Discord, Youtube) I would have been much more intellectually isolated and less able to explore those interests. Supporters of social media bans for teenagers must have a very narrow idea of what both under-16s and the internet are like. I feel bad for the kids whose parents won't help them c

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