
Partially right.
Bans push behavior underground.
VPNs. Dark web. Unmonitored spaces.
Telegram ban in Russia — proven ineffective.
Kids kept using it. Confirmed.
But the alternative argument —
Instagram’s own internal research. 2021. Leaked.
“We make body image issues worse for 1 in 3 teenage girls.”
They knew. They published it anyway.
TikTok’s algorithm —
designed to maximize time on platform.
Teen brain — still developing.
Dopamine loops exploited deliberately.
YouTube’s recommendation engine —
radicalization pathway. Documented.
Senate hearings. Confirmed.
The choice isn’t —
ban vs no ban.
The choice is —
who is responsible?
The platform that designs
the addictive product —
or the parent who can’t monitor it —
or the government that banned it badly —
or the teenager who never asked
to be the product?
Pavel Durov is right that bans don’t work.
He is not the right person to make that argument.
Telegram is where most of the “worse content” already lives.
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