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This is a huge one. If the internet wasn't capitalist and designed to draw kids in and not let them go, a restriction like this would not be needed. We don't go around restricting kids playing, for example, soccer, because it's extremely rare that they will get addicted to soccer to the point of jeopardizing their development. Both soccer and the internet are entertainment and recreation, there is no real fundamental difference between them. BUT, in our current capitalistic society, one of those was crafted by marketing professionals and literal psychologists to get kids hooked and keep coming back no matter what. If that wasn't the case and sites were made to just be fun and entertaining (and safe) without the dark patterns and addictive designs, then the internet is just another form of recreation like soccer, and we don't need to enforce how much kids use it anymore. In a world like that I imagine kids would also naturally use the internet less, because, again, it would be just another form of recreation out of the many others they have access to, and not something designed occupy every part of their mind.
You don't like these restrictions? I know I'm not a huge fan purely in principle, then we need to clean up and de-capitalize the internet so it's safe for kids' mental development to access whenever they want. Until then, I think limits like this is needed and I support them.