“The social media ban may remedy gen Z’s mind rot,” opined the Financial Review’s nameless editorial immediately, arguing that the federal government’s asinine and privacy-eroding social media ban for youngsters would tackle “the corrosive toll features of social media have taken on complete generations — notably younger folks”.
Peddling the discredited claims of Jonathan Haidt, the AFR pins the blame for “anxiousness, melancholy and self-harm amongst youngsters” on social media, which “actively cannibalises younger folks’s time in creating important abilities”, stops youngsters from going out and kicking a footy round and “handed tech titans free rein to use the impressionable nature of younger folks”.
