Re: A thought experiment
If Facebook disappeared tomorrow it would actually solve a whole raft of social problems in this country.
Indeed. Quite why social media isn't "sin taxed" in the way anything else is I cannot fathom. Much of Big Tobacco is beyond our tax jurisdiction because while they operate here, their HQs are abroad... so similar to social meeja nonesense to. What we do instead is tax the purchase/consumption of the product, so packet filtering out farcebook etc unless the consumer (phone/broadband connection) has paid the relevant tax upfront should be simple.
It'd reduce the societal harm this nonsense causes and exacerbates, and would raise a pretty penny for the Treasury too, as most addicts would simply cough up, because, well, they're addicts.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
