4 ms·
There have already been studies showing that frequent visits to FB make a person more unhappy in their overall life. Now this. So, a major worldwide internet po
by hellofunk 11y ago
There have already been studies showing that frequent visits to FB make a person more unhappy in their overall life. Now this. So, a major worldwide internet power -- that is, a single company -- that is trying to disrupt so much of global life (India, anyone?), with the interesting side effect that it makes people unhappy and less intelligent. If you had heard this "reality" 20 years ago, you wouldn't believe the future could be so dark.
- cryoshon 11y agoYep, a major worldwide internet power has vested interest in mining data from its billions of users via its product, which is broadly detrimental to those users. To be honest, it seems a lot like the oil companies: major worldwide energy powers with vested interest in extracting fossil fuels from the earth then selling them to billions of users to burn, which is detrimental to everyone. A lot of these mega-scale corporations manage to get away with mass-scale detrimental effects because of a general state of addiction to their product, which was legitimately new and useful at an earlier point in time. That, and after a certain point they become too powerful for any one country to stop.
- hellofunk 11y agoAlso, because laws are only a subset of the many ways a society handles, judges, and distinguishes detrimental actions. Laws can only do so much.