It's a nice idea & definitely worth doing to raise awareness.

At the same time, we desperately need regulation at national & international levels; parents & individuals are being constantly bombarded with PR & marketing from big tech designed to delay, misdirect, & confuse, & of course, big tech has close to unlimited resources & political influence to get their messages across over anyone else's. People don't know what the harms are or what to do & as things are it's difficult for individuals to "cut themselves off" or cut off their teenage children from these internet services.

However, we're starting to see governments taking good advice & get serious about the issues, e.g. with harm caused to young people in:

Australia: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/12/05/what-is-australias-under-16-social-media-ban-the-world-first-law-explained.html

and perhaps France: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251231-france-to-debate-social-media-ban-for-children-under-15

and other countries are also weighing up the evidence & thinking about regulation.

There's also another issue with big tech's power over populations & countries; that our governments & businesses are, to a large extent, dependent on them. Prof. Harald Wehnes calls it digital colonialism & it's costing the UK & EU countries $10's billions every year. It's a drag on our economies. It also leaves our governments & democratic institutions vulnerable to coercion & manipulation, e.g. digital sanctions against the ICC after their adjudications over Israeli activities in Gaza & the West Bank. Big tech & by extension the US government can bankrupt EU companies simply by cutting off their digital services; it happened recently to a Dutch bank.

Here's a write-up of an interview with Prof. Harald Wehnes with the original interview & the transcript. It makes for scary reading!: https://matbury.com/wordpress/index.php/2025/11/01/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-colony-a-wake-up-call-for-europe/

Countries outside the USA desperately need to develop their own, sovereign tech services so that they're not beholden &/or vulnerable to foreign administrations' conflicts of interest.