what a stupid idea… actually regulate them you fucking cowards.
On one hand great, on the other, has the “Confirm you’re an adult” prompt ever stopped a curious young man who just learned the word, “boobs” from viewing adult imagery?
What’s great about it?
What’s great about it?
the boobs, of course
When I was a kid they just called modern Music and Pokemon the products of Satan. They didn’t have to dress it up in pseudoscience to justify it. I bet Vivek Murthy got butthurt on reddit and is now trying to take the ball home.
Get away with it to. No one ever gets punished for a moral panic. Janet Reno tortured a confession out of a 17 year old during the daycare panic and had a long fruitful career.
It’s tabacco-like in that it’s a warning. It’s not tabacco-like in that there’s no science demonstrating definite cancerous harm.
I don’t know about you but I’m going to have to keep my daughter away from social media! It’ll rot her brain and make her a tankie! (We are taking about Lemmy, right? /s)
Isn’t social media just a distillation of the interactions innate in society? If exposure to social media is damaging that’s indicative of deeply flawed and damaging society.
The key difference is its sorted by an algorithm designed to increase your engagement and view duration. And quite often the easiest way to do that is by generating negative emotional responses, etc
Even with perfect algorithms I think it’s reasonable to expect problems within society to sharpen.
I mean if there was some theoretical social media entity completely disconnected from optimization for its own benefit then the people using that system would still have been provided the tools to do all their social relations faster, more often and with more intensity.
That’s gonna, and maybe I’m giving away the game here, uh, heighten the contradictions.
