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It is right to ban social media, but the threshold of 16 years is not right, the figure should be reversed: 61, writes Camillo Langone in Camillo Langone "Il Foglio". The inspiration comes from Plato who in the "Laws", a fairly statist dialogue to be honest, proposes to ban wine for minors under the age of 18, to allow it sparingly for twenty and thirty year olds, fully liberalizing it only after the age of forty: "When a man enters his fortieth year, he may invite Dionysus to participate in the sacred rite of the elderly, also for their joy, which God himself has given to men to lighten their burden, i.e. summer". The forty-year-olds of Ancient Greece are the sixty-year-olds of the Modern West, of course, while Plato's drunken symposia correspond to Zuckerberg and Musk's social networks in terms of socialization.
At 40 then and sixty today, what's done is done, if you want to destroy yourself, go ahead. But first, the brain must be preserved. Using it. I see that the partial ban (currently only in Australia) of social media has a large number of opponents, with often reasonable arguments. But it seems even more reasonable to try to save the man from the machine that is swallowing him alive. Chance of success? I'm afraid it's small, but we'd be lazy not to try.
Then this legislation in Australia, apparently illiberal, can paradoxically be liberating. Moreno Pisto a day ago in Mow gave the most contemporary definition of socialism: "The society in which the court of social networks reigns". All social networks, except partly X (formerly Twitter) are the realm of censorship, with relative self-censorship (I already on Instagram have to be careful when posting churches, bridges: it was these bold posts that caused me several warnings of closure for breaking the rules). Those who live in social networks live limited by the algorithm, mechanized without realizing it. Banning social media is an incentive to break digital chains. Long live Australia! Long live the nation of ex-convicts that calls us to escape! / Bota.al
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