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Do you think a law which restricts "social media" will be crafted delicately enough to affect Instagram and Facebook but not HN?
by delecti 1y ago
Do you think a law which restricts "social media" will be crafted delicately enough to affect Instagram and Facebook but not HN?
- everdrive 1y agoIn principle, certainly. In practice, Congress can't be trusted to craft more or less any law these days. I'm not necessarily sure that the law will be able to help us here, but I also think it's not helpful to take the broadest possible definition of social media to try to shutdown discussion. (I'm not suggesting that you are doing that)
- dlisboa 1y agoI'd gladly give up HN if it means Instagram and Facebook are eradicated. Yes, yes, "those that would trade liberty for security...", but we were better off without any form of social media at all.
- iamnothere 1y agoI often wonder if posts like this, along with the people who want to ban all cars, etc are just rage bait. Fortunately most of the population disagrees with your preferences. I give “general social media ban” around a 1% chance of success.
- mothballed 1y agoOf course not, instead kids will be logging into some russian/chinese 4chan-esque service which has no qualms about the opinion of US law.
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoThis is the way things should be. Down with enforcable laws!
- hobom 1y agoAustralia's soon-to-take-effect ban affects nine platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, but not HN. These bans often operate on the amount of users a platform has, so HN is unlikely to make the cut. Nobody cares about this site.