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For anyone expecting social media to help foster the next “Springtime” of revolution – to paraphrase Shakespeare – this is very much the winter of disconnect.
Banning social media doesn’t solve the underlying issues. Plus, people can still get around these bans using fake identities and VPNs
Social media has become so out of control that top democracies worldwide are banning it. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/28/techscape-france-tiktok-ban-facebook
We could ban people from using social media, but that seems to be a move that is preferred by dictators around the world.