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I remember 40-30 years ago I heard exactly the same thing we hear about TikTok from parents leaving their kids in front of the TV 4 to 10 hours a day. It was s

I remember 40-30 years ago I heard exactly the same thing we hear about TikTok from parents leaving their kids in front of the TV 4 to 10 hours a day. It was something like "The Japanese plan is to make our children stupid with their animations to overtake us" It might be true but also you don't put your child in front of the TV at 3 years old... It is like serving them beer and then blaming the Belgians for turning our kids into alcoholics.

mitthrowaway2 2y ago
Well that wouldn't make sense, since they watch the same animations in Japan. However Tiktok is banned in China; the domestic app Douyin promotes content differently.
JKCalhoun 2y ago
Yes, TV from decades ago and the internet on our phones now can both be shitty.
pixl97 2y ago
>I remember 40-30 years ago I heard exactly I mean if you look at how some of those 40-50 year olds are behaving in public and voting maybe they were right?
crims0n 2y ago
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death is probably worth a read. The problem is with the medium, and how it strips away critical information. Television stripped that information away from typography, TikTok strips away even more. It's fundamentally still the same problem.
commandlinefan 2y ago
> like serving them beer Censorship is often justified by comparisons to physical substances like this - chemicals can irreparably harm your body, therefore ideas can irreparably harm your brain. I don't believe that these are the same. There's no way to really prove it, but there is a way to prove that censorship (which is what banning social media amounts to) _is_ objectively bad.
- sunshine-o 2y ago
  I am not advocating for censorship or in a fact any measure from the gov to restrict access to internet or social media. Kids are gonna be able to once in a while get their hand on porn, a beer, a cigarette or whatever. The problem is the lack of supervision and parents who use devices to avoid having to take care of their children.

mitthrowaway2 2y ago

Well that wouldn't make sense, since they watch the same animations in Japan. However Tiktok is banned in China; the domestic app Douyin promotes content differently.

JKCalhoun 2y ago

Yes, TV from decades ago and the internet on our phones now can both be shitty.

pixl97 2y ago

>I remember 40-30 years ago I heard exactly I mean if you look at how some of those 40-50 year olds are behaving in public and voting maybe they were right?

crims0n 2y ago

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death is probably worth a read. The problem is with the medium, and how it strips away critical information. Television stripped that information away from typography, TikTok strips away even more. It's fundamentally still the same problem.

commandlinefan 2y ago

> like serving them beer Censorship is often justified by comparisons to physical substances like this - chemicals can irreparably harm your body, therefore ideas can irreparably harm your brain. I don't believe that these are the same. There's no way to really prove it, but there is a way to prove that censorship (which is what banning social media amounts to) _is_ objectively bad.

sunshine-o 2y ago
I am not advocating for censorship or in a fact any measure from the gov to restrict access to internet or social media. Kids are gonna be able to once in a while get their hand on porn, a beer, a cigarette or whatever. The problem is the lack of supervision and parents who use devices to avoid having to take care of their children.