Hi Galen, I totally agree with you regarding social media. And I would like to stress the huge scam that is confusing data with information.
In other words, we have access to an avalanche of data and at the same time there is a great inability to sort and process this information, to separate the relevant from the irrelevant, to detect what is missing and, what is worse, in general there is no interest in checking the sources and the veracity of what we are told. This, to me in particular, refers to the absence of any critical thinking in the society in which I live, and that cannot be fixed by censoring access to data, nor do States (I speak in general) have any interest in governing a population that practices critical thinking.
In my opinion, this measure that you inform us about is one more step in censorship and population control. And one more step in the direction of taking away from parents the education of their children.