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The rate at which is gives teenagers depression is enough of a reason, imo. There's broad consensus this stuff is detrimental to young people's mental health. F

• ethbr0 3y ago
  > ...akin [to] the Philip Moris company testifying... Indeed. If only there were some analogy to a massively profitable industry, woven into the social fabric of the country, that was then found to be harmful. Why, you'd expect that said industry would fight tooth and nail against regulation, perhaps stringing things out for decades... For those who weren't there, two things were simultaneously true in the 80s, 90s, and 00s: (1) we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt cigarettes gave people cancer & (2) we still had smoking sections right next to non-smoking ones, throughout businesses of all sorts. All because it was too hard to change, and there were too many addicts to make a change. ... before ultimately yielding to the weight of scientific evidence against it. But not before killing people who didn't have to die if they'd heeded warnings earlier and pivoted. Or, you know, this could be a completely different scenario, and Meta could be acting out of altruism with its users best interests at heart. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3wUZvOEGm8c https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3wUZvOEGm8c