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I think this all just a continuation of how society wants everything safe and made of foam. We cannot have danger at the park because someone might scrape a kne
by Gunax 5y ago
I think this all just a continuation of how society wants everything safe and made of foam. We cannot have danger at the park because someone might scrape a knee. We cannot have contact sports because someone might break a tooth. And we cannot have uncensored internet because someone might reqd something that wasn't Snopes-approved.
Most infuriating to me is that now it's about coddling teens. I didn't want to be coddled as a teen. I wanted to be respected. I wanted to be free of patronizing zealots. Oddly, Zuckerberg was a teenager himself when he started the damn thing.
Teens have rights too, as much as we adults want to deny them.
- michaelmrose 5y agoPeople are being fed deliberate poisonous stupidity because Facebook figured they were vulnerable to it or rather implemented an algorithm that maximized engagement and therefore revenue at the expense of the health of society and people's lives. You are trivializing this harm. I have family that aren't vaccinating and may harm themselves or others because of poisonous shit they learned on Facebook.
- raxxorrax 5y agoTeens navigate social media even better than many 30-somethings who were also digital natives. I agree with the sentiment though. Missinformation is a narrative from legacy media to fortify their positions against social media giants. To be fair, the latter are a problem, but mostly the censorship by them is.