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Not gonna lie, that take is boiling for a reason.
It has that typical vibe of an older person not able to relate to younger people anymore and their life situation, and just prohibiting stuff for them because they think they're smarter because of their age and only they can use it.
Also, prohibiting something for someone like this would have the opposite effect, basically everybody would just stay completely illiterate with it, fall into its traps once they can use it and make its bad effects even worse.
(Besides that, just look at the UK porn ban; everything that was terrible about it and made the whole situation much worse would also apply here.
In general: Don't just judge someone because of their age or act as if everyone with the same age would be the same.