[Jessica Melugin] Social media bans bring problems

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The korea Herald News

Bans on social media for minors are having a political moment. Parents’ sincere concerns and politicians’ instincts to capitalize on those fears are driving federal and state legislation like the kind already in effect elsewhere in the world. But no amount of good intentions makes these efforts good policy. At the federal level, bipartisan legislation seeks to ban some age groups from creating or maintaining a social media account and restrict older youths from receiving algorithmic recommendati