We should ban all social media. It's true that social media, or "algorithms," etc, isn't the ultimate cause of our woes, but the same could be said about any number of harmful and pernicious things that are prohibited or regulated for the benefit of the public welfare. Guns come to mind. On one level the Second Amendment nuts are entirely right when they say violence isn't really about the guns but about a broken society, mental health, a fallen world, whatever. But that's also a dumb argument, for obvious reasons: Given that society is broken and people do crazy things, it's a bad idea to give everyone open access to high-caliber tools that allow them to do exponentially more damage and harm should they choose to do so.

Same with social media. Of *course* it's developed in the twisted way that it has, given this poisoned cultural soil of ours from which it sprang. And of course pulling the plug wouldn't be a panacea any more than getting rid of guns would put a stop to violence. But both need to happen, even if both are impossible to imagine. (Facebook doesn't spiritually immiserate people; *people* spiritually immiserate people!)