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It's disturbing to think of a social network for kids, but a lot of kids are on current social networks, so maybe it could actually be a little bit of a safer place for them.
IMO social networks as they're currently designed are bad enough for adults. We shouldn't normalize them (too late I suppose). Ie. Your argument is similar to saying, "It's disturbing to think of kids smoking, but a lot already are, so maybe having child cigarettes would be a bit safer for them." I'm of the opinion that children under a certain age shouldn't have access to social media at all, in the same way you can't smoke or drink under a certain age until they are taught/understand it's implications on their mental/physical health.
Yeah probably they shouldn't be on social media. I'm just saying that it could be an improvement over the current situation. If children were constantly smoking cigarettes, giving them juuls would arguably be an improvement too.
True. Incrementalism vs. Radicalism.