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What really irks the living s#it outta me is not so much that states are blindly suing social media sites just to get on the bandwagon of pretending they're doing something to help kids -- it's that nobody, not one of those people in any of those states, NO ONE - has asked kids if they feel like they're being harmed by social media. Outraged puritanical parental groups are making ridiculous assumptions right and left about what kids are seeing, and worse, assuming they know what kids are feeling as a result. They are wrong on this in almost every way. Any kid will tell you, they see worse stuff than this in other places than online almost every day of their lives. It's popular to make social media the villain - but how can you just ignore input from the very people you're pretending to be protecting.
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