> like serving them beer

Censorship is often justified by comparisons to physical substances like this - chemicals can irreparably harm your body, therefore ideas can irreparably harm your brain. I don't believe that these are the same. There's no way to really prove it, but there is a way to prove that censorship (which is what banning social media amounts to) _is_ objectively bad.

I am not advocating for censorship or in a fact any measure from the gov to restrict access to internet or social media.

Kids are gonna be able to once in a while get their hand on porn, a beer, a cigarette or whatever.

The problem is the lack of supervision and parents who use devices to avoid having to take care of their children.

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death is probably worth a read. The problem is with the medium, and how it strips away critical information. Television stripped that information away from typography, TikTok strips away even more. It's fundamentally still the same problem.

Yes, TV from decades ago and the internet on our phones now can both be shitty.