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I think this is not a sensible position.

One one side you have big companies paying huge amounts of money to super smart people to get teens hooked on their products.

On the other side you have parents who on average dont understand how social media algorithm works or in some (too many cases) they cannot follow the logic to a second order effect.

Even here we have comments saying something like "be smarter and teach your kid to be smarter than big social media companies" not understanding that addiction cannot always be defended by improved IQ. Geniuses can have addictions too.

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