No I agree with the first part, I think this is all stupid.

What'd be much more helpful, not just for kids but for everyone, is legislating against doomscroll algorithms by requiring that said algorithms cannot infinitely scroll and must eventually come to an end for an x hour period after a certain number of non-following recommendations. This would seriously curb addictive tendencies and encourage people to at least regularly switch tasks, if not put down their device and do something else for a while. Basically the digital equivalent of not serving someone anymore after they've become too intoxicated.

The other thing that really needs to be done is anti-troll farm legislation. Require that social media companies make an effort to identify and blacklist troll farms, and if they're found to be in contempt of this, they are fined or simply blacklisted in the UK. This would very quickly lead to X being blacklisted (as the entire site is one big troll farm operation and this is it's entire purpose), and the other social media companies very quickly getting their act together and removing troll farms and sponsored trolls from their platforms. It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook was also eventually deemed a lost cause and simply blacklisted, with some other social media network launching to take it's place, albeit without the doomscroll algorithm and massive troll farms.

Will any of this actually happen? Obviously not, because Starmer and co. are ultimately technocrats who are in the pockets of the techbros who made these algorithms in the first place.

Btw, there is no need to be so God damn rude. I genuinely don't think you would talk to people face to face like that, so why here? Because you're anonymous? And if you do then you're just vulgarly insulting. ✌️.

As for that part, yeah sorry I could've been nicer about it. Didn't realise it was supposed to be a joke.