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What? Youtube is exactly like television. The only significant difference is that it includes a comment section where people can interact. I don't think that ma
by superkuh 4y ago
What? Youtube is exactly like television. The only significant difference is that it includes a comment section where people can interact. I don't think that makes it worse.
And it is certainly not analogous to drugs. Trying to compare the stimuli of looking at a screen is entirely different from taking drugs that bypass your senses completely to hijack the neuronal populations which determine the salience and motivation of stimuli.
Stop comparing passive watching through normal senses to drugs. They are not the same. Saying they are the same invites the same kind of highly immoral "war" against "screens" which would necessarily involve violence of the state against people.
- ok123456 4y agoYoutube Kids disables all comments, and algorithmic recommendations. What they're recommended is 'kids' content maybe based on age. This is roughly the level of demographic targeting for broadcast television.
- somenameforme 4y agoJust because an activity has a similar means of interacting doesn't mean it's the same, or even really comparable. Doomscrolling and reading a good book are both just "reading." But of course the consequences and benefits of each are quite different. YouTube is millions of videos available on demand, instantly, across virtually any topic imaginable - with lots of high quality content available. And it's fueled by an algorithm designed to maximize "engagement", which is of course little more than a euphemism for addiction. That's quite different than TV which has a micro-sized selection of time-slotted, generally poor quality media, generally repeating on intermittent loops, that the user has to manually tune into to.