UK teens report sleep, wellbeing gains under social media restrictions, study

Strange, shallow hyperbole.

Social media is causing widespread mental health crises, has killed democratic discourse and regarding the "functional families", I doubt it being helpful there either.

I respect being against censorship and/or surveillance, but portraying Social Media bans for children as plainly stupid in this way is deeply unwarranted IMO.

Free speech does not depend on Meta, and other platforms that intransparently and intentionally promote personalized manipulation of public opinion and monetization of suffering.

Using social media (or better, offering it) is not necessarily a free-speech issue.

In my opinion, free speech is not hindered by banning minors from using social media platforms / banning platforms from monetizing their lives.