Banning Social Media is Good

Let me be clear: Banning access to platforms built by tech-giants is fantastic. Cutting our youth off from a parasitic internet built on greed may actually save the generations to come. Ideally, we should take their phones too, and leave them to their boredoms and imaginations. Alas, we can only demand so much of a post-pandora’s-smart-box world. The grievances and frustrations hurled at the new legistation facing Australia is legitimate too, I fear. Big-tech social media platforms is where our teens have lived for years, and they’re just supposed to pack up and leave that life and its countless conveniences? For what?

What if I told you there was an alternative? In fact, it suits this use-case perfectly: Federated platforms. Yada yada… their own pocket social media… yada yada… separated from the rest of the internet… yada yada… connected only to their peers, et cetera…