Mastodawn

Exactly. It's a classic moral panic that will solve nothing while creating loads of new problems. I especially fear for the socially isolated kids who are now going to have their lifeline taken away, especially as anything that allows interaction with others will be classed as "social media". https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/05/29/we-cannot-ban-our-way-out-of-a-youth-mental-health-crisis-social-media-bans-for-teenagers-lack-evidence-and-pose-risks-scientists-say #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #SocialMediaDebate #BanSocialMedia #social_media_age_ban #social_media_ban

‘We cannot ban our way out of a youth mental health crisis’: social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say

Bans on teenagers’ social media use are gathering pace worldwide. Their proponents claim that social media bans will improve young people’s mental health, but w

‘We cannot ban our way out of a youth mental health crisis’: social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say

Simone Mar 9

#90s vibes for a (sorry, probably #AI) video that quite effectively highlights some absurd changes that slowly took place in everyone’s lives.
Is the king really so naked?
#nostalgia #thinking #society #community #communication #BanSocialMedia #safety #kids #friends #music #privacy

Killian Mangan🇮🇪Dec 13, 2025

My article on @TheJournal , calling for toxic algorithms on social media to be banned!

https://jrnl.ie/6901718

#socialmedia #australia #ireland #eu #socialmediaban #bansocialmedia #recommendersystems #democracy #farright #extremism #fascism #online #irish #irishpolitics #eupolitics #europe #eu #toxicalgorithms #algorithm #algorithms

Opinion: Banning under-16s from social media is a half-measure. We should ban toxic algorithms

Australia is trying to ban teens from social media, but that only scratches the surface as a solution to the problems tech companies are causing us, writes Killian Mangan.

TheJournal.ie