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I love coming to HN during European hours. Only then is the community is primed to deliver harsh truths.

samhw 5y ago
Is it a harsh truth? It's harsh, that's for sure. It strikes me as unbelievably illiberal and puritanical to suggest that it should be illegal to create content for children which (the speaker considers) is unedifying. I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like some of these attitudes which are considered progressive nowadays would have made Mary Whitehouse blush. What happened to insisting on a free and pluralistic society?
- pjc50 5y ago
  > It strikes me as unbelievably illiberal and puritanical to suggest that it should be illegal to create content for children which (the speaker considers) is unedifying. HN is in favor of free speech, except for teenagers dancing to each other.
  - samhw 5y ago
    It's full of 40-year-olds trying to justify how their phobia of TikTok is somehow different from their parents' phobia of video games or rock-and-roll.
    - blocked_again 5y ago
      OP (myself), is GenZ for what it is worth.
      - samhw 5y ago
        Fair enough, perhaps I should have said 'adults'. Every generation of adults, since time immemorial, has complained that 'kids these days' are intellectually or spiritually degenerate compared with their own generation. It wasn't true then. It isn't true now. TikTok is not 'rewiring children's brains', or whatever it is that adults are panicking about, any more than Grand Theft Auto or Eminem did. Buck the trend.
Spivak 5y ago
It’s not even really a harsh truth. It’s just a hot take from someone who only has the most surface level understanding of why people like TikTok. It’s legitimately the best social network around right now. The content is so freaking good, raw, silly, and spans all walks of life. Whatever they did with the algo makes it extremely high-signal for me and my friends who are on it. I get really high quality content for exactly my niche interests without ever having to spend time searching for it.

Is it a harsh truth? It's harsh, that's for sure. It strikes me as unbelievably illiberal and puritanical to suggest that it should be illegal to create content for children which (the speaker considers) is unedifying. I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like some of these attitudes which are considered progressive nowadays would have made Mary Whitehouse blush. What happened to insisting on a free and pluralistic society?

pjc50 5y ago
> It strikes me as unbelievably illiberal and puritanical to suggest that it should be illegal to create content for children which (the speaker considers) is unedifying. HN is in favor of free speech, except for teenagers dancing to each other.
- samhw 5y ago
  It's full of 40-year-olds trying to justify how their phobia of TikTok is somehow different from their parents' phobia of video games or rock-and-roll.
  - blocked_again 5y ago
    OP (myself), is GenZ for what it is worth.
    - samhw 5y ago
      Fair enough, perhaps I should have said 'adults'. Every generation of adults, since time immemorial, has complained that 'kids these days' are intellectually or spiritually degenerate compared with their own generation. It wasn't true then. It isn't true now. TikTok is not 'rewiring children's brains', or whatever it is that adults are panicking about, any more than Grand Theft Auto or Eminem did. Buck the trend.

Spivak 5y ago

It’s not even really a harsh truth. It’s just a hot take from someone who only has the most surface level understanding of why people like TikTok. It’s legitimately the best social network around right now. The content is so freaking good, raw, silly, and spans all walks of life. Whatever they did with the algo makes it extremely high-signal for me and my friends who are on it. I get really high quality content for exactly my niche interests without ever having to spend time searching for it.