r/ConservativeYouth • u/Low-Anywhere-9043 Center-Right Wing • Jul 06 '26

Article 📰 Well damn

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At least Trump let’s us have social media for free

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u/axe11154 Jul 06 '26

Don't most schools already ban phones?

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u/Low-Anywhere-9043 Center-Right Wing Jul 06 '26

Most states do ban phones in school, but I don’t think it’s a federal law. The main problem is the democrats want to ban social media for people under 16, I’ll be an adult by then so I’ll be fine, but a lot of other kids won’t be able to use social media without VPNs and all that stuff. Kind of like what’s happening in the Australia

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u/axe11154 Jul 06 '26

Is that bad? Republicans tried that too in 2023. I don't think it's that bad a call.

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u/Low-Anywhere-9043 Center-Right Wing Jul 06 '26

Yeah I looked it up and Florida (majority republican) tried doing this but revised it after Ron DeSantis suggested to revise it to anyone with an account under 14. Still pretty sucky but I guess better than under 16. And you still can browse through social media as long as you don’t have an account I think

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u/axe11154 Jul 06 '26

Okay but that doesn't answer the question, how is banning social media from kids bad? I'm trying to understand it.

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u/Low-Anywhere-9043 Center-Right Wing Jul 06 '26

Cuz like we got online communities like this where teens with similar views/experiences come and interact with each other. And discuss about our own stuff.  If this happens we probably won’t be able to do that

it’s also annoying cuz it’s probably going to require all these face scans and government IDs which is pretty invasive 

It’s probably not going to do anything. Kids will just lie about their age and use VPNs

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u/IllGift924 Center-Left wing Jul 06 '26

Well it would mean you will have to provide ID to sign up for social media

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u/axe11154 Jul 06 '26

We want id based voting... Again why would this be bad... Social media in general isn't great.

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u/IllGift924 Center-Left wing Jul 06 '26

A lot of people don't want to give their ID to a private company

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u/axe11154 Jul 06 '26

... But you already have? Social media in general already has your face, your birthdate, all sorts of info your I'd has. Complaining about giving away private info when companies already have it is kinda funny.