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Taking away heroin from addicted people will leave them feeling bad. That's not a reason to keep supplying it to them. > blanket banning will leave them signif
by tgv 4y ago
Taking away heroin from addicted people will leave them feeling bad. That's not a reason to keep supplying it to them.
> blanket banning will leave them significantly socially isolated
If they get that much of their interaction online, they're already socially isolated. That it happens to be called social media doesn't mean it's actually social.
- flangola7 4y agoUnilaterally taking heroin away from individuals (especially without investing in the necessary support structures) is also a wrong and doomed strategy (I think everyone here is familiar with the abject disaster that was the War on Drugs), so that's not very encouraging. Government does have a place here, but it's in the form of banning hyperoptimizing attention/advertising algorithms and other business models that rely on precision crafted human manipulation, not micromanaging as a parental stand-in.
- tgv 4y agoBut it's not a reason to just keep supplying addicts with heroin, which is the implied laissez-faire solution of the parent comment. > the War on Drugs That's not a one-dimensional topic, and in the case of social media, the suppliers are very, very well known.