• BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world
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    2 小时前

    Prohibition is effective, it’s just that it doesn’t work for easy to manufacture compounds such as alcohol or marijuana. Every known human culture has independently discovered alcohol, and marijuana is a weed that is ready to smoke in its natural form.

    As far as social media goes, my country has reached a point where TikTok and Facebook are preinstalled on every phone. If a parent buys their kid a phone and removes them, they will reinstall themselves after an automatic update. When you take into consideration the “streamlined” registration process, one can argue this is a means to target prepubescent children.

    …I guess an 8 year old could download a VPN and steal their parents identification, but I feel like some form of prohibition would help.

    • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
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      So you not only create a grey market you immediately inculcate the children into it.

      Prohibition is generally ineffective in anything that doesn’t involve violating someone else’s rights.

      If we’re talking about getting rid of slopware I’m all for it. But this law. And other laws like it are an incredibly thinley veiled attempt to silence dissent by tying peoples online comments to their employment and subsequently housing and healthcare.

      And I will never believe that this is done out concern for children.