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Most positive things about my teenager years, especially when it comes to forming critical thinking by trial and error, was by actively using the Internet using a pseudonym and accounts with providers who didn't require me to prove my identity. Learning English and programming skills, for example, and talking to people outside the local political bubble. Banning young people from the Internet will also make them more vulnerable, withholding access to the main public forum of nowadays. There was a popular saying in parts of the Runet, "ban kids from the Internet - they make it stupid"; these parts have since become openly fascist. We should fight fascists not kids.
Yeah, this is definitely a complicated issue with capitalists and pedophiles to worry about, but at the end of the day I think kids are ultimately safer and more able to intellectually develop when they have some degree of free speech and free association rights, and that's exactly what use of the Internet and social media in particular is