• bobzer@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    Underage drinking is still more common than it should be,

    Sure, but it’s significantly lower than legal drinking.

    We as a society acknowledge the harm of underage drinking so prohibition is effective. Prohibition of adult drinking was puritan bullshit the majority didn’t agree with so it didn’t work.

    I think you’d find a majority of parents agree social media is shit, but they’re unwilling to isolate their child. In this case prohibition would be effective.

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      It will be effective if the prohibition takes the form of these companies no longer existing, at least in their current form, OR if the majority turn against them, making them irrelevant. An age gate won’t do anything, not on its own