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Is it also disheartening to see cigarette regulation framed as a second hand smoke issue, when alcohol causes car crashes? One problem hardly refutes the other
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Is it also disheartening to see cigarette regulation framed as a second hand smoke issue, when alcohol causes car crashes? One problem hardly refutes the other. They're both problems.
I agree with social media eroding free will and being generally harmful to society no matter what country the social media comes from. Nothing would please me more than to see the dissolution of Facebook. But that doesn't refute the national security implications of communist Chinese social media particularly. Both of these are problems.
- algoatecorn 4y agoI think we're in agreement; perhaps I should have used better language. What I find disheartening is that it took a natsec angle for people to begin to care. To analogize, it would be the same feeling as secondhand smoke being the reason people finally begin to address cigarettes. As if it wasn't painfully obvious what they were doing to primary smokers. It's painfilly obvious what short reel scroll feeds do to primary users