How our current fears about children and social media will be laughed at in a hundred years’ time
The ban on social media for children announced today by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is simply the latest moral panic about children using the latest information technology. Such fears go back over two thousand years, and we laugh today at earlier anxieties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvXRNpIA8wI
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