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Ask HN: How do we start to treat online platforms as public health problems?

• onecommentman 6y ago
  Well, you could directly identify those individuals who use a platform in what some would call an abusive way as having a “mental health” problem. That way you can keep the platform going, while isolating the offending individuals. Worked for the Soviet Union... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_...