Texas Bill Would Ban Social Media for Children Under 18
11th December 2022
This sort of thing never works. If people want to do X badly enough, they will find a way to do X. If doing X is made a crime, it merely encourages criminal behavior. Prohibition ought to be sufficient evidence of how bad an idea this is.
The only time banning certain behavior works is if most people accept that such behavior is a bad thing. If a significant portion of the population don’t do that, then all that happens is the creation of a criminal subculture devoted to servicing people who want to indulge in that behavior. Gambling, recreational drugs, sex work–all testify to the eternal truth that such can’t be eliminated, merely driven underground. That just makes it even more profitable for the criminally inclined to service that market. (Markets work even when you don’t want them to.)