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it's also long overdue that the primary role that confessional religions play in the cause of almost all mental health problems be acknowledged and addressed by the state institutions, who should be taking a greater role n stepping in between children and their parents to prevent parents from enforcing their cultural values and religious beliefs on their children. religion is a disease and mental illness that is at the root cause of virtually all problems in society. children need to have their right to say "no" to their parents strengthened by the state, who should be stepping in to enforce those rights.

social media has incalculable social, political and economic benefits for people of all ages.

video games are a completely worthless brain-rotting waste of time with no redeemable qualities whatsoever, and which should not exist at all.

banning young people from social media will severely stunt their social development in the modern world and put them at a severe competitive disadvantage in the global economy. it will also eliminate a means for them to organize against state institutions, in order to demonstrate against government policies that they can't vote against, in addition to it being petty and draconian and tyrannical. it's a severe attack on the democratic, social, economic and political rights of young people.

there is no scientific evidence at all whatsoever that social media causes anything it's being scapegoated for. this fear of social media is a classic moral panic rooted in conservative ignorance that should be resisted by all liberals and all socialists and everybody else on the left. rising conservative technophobia is a serious social problem that needs to be addressed and resisted.

i would rather see a focus on root causes than an attack on symptoms, which would mean a ban on video games, a dramatic change in culture around competitive activities like sports and a crack down on drug use and drug culture.

we haven't had a good round of civil disobedience and legal non-compliance in canada for a long time. our governments, and our courts, are getting arrogant and complacent. they need to be reminded that we tell them what to do, they don't tell us what to do. that is our legacy as a northern european society, based in germanic legal traditions.

it is up to young people to disobey this law with force and it is up to the companies to empower them to disobey it. and then it's up to canadians to vote this fascist government out of power.

when governments intentionally restrict individual freedoms, they break the constitutional social contract and lose the right to govern. if they don't resign, they must be torn down, and violence becomes justified as a means to an end in achieving that outcome.

the correct way to respond to this is with mass protest, general strikes and civil disobedience, using the protests in iran against the iranian government as a model.

canada is no longer a democratic society and can no longer be treated as one.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11894610/canada-social-media-ban-teens-online-harms-bill/