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Social media should be banned like pesticides, fossil fuels and other things harmful to the society.
by akagusu 8mo ago
Social media should be banned like pesticides, fossil fuels and other things harmful to the society.
- simianwords 8mo agoNone of those things are banned completely nor are only harmful in society. Both of them are regulated but it is understood that they are critical to society without which a lot of stuff won’t happen
- _bypa 8mo agoWhat won't happen in society without social media?
- pjmlp 8mo agoSocial media has existed for centuries, in the old days it was village rumors.
- _bypa 8mo agoNot at anything resembling the instantaneous global reach of today.
- pjmlp 8mo agoThe world was different then, but printed press and later the telegraph certainly helped. Or centuries in between where folks used to go village to village telling tales for a few coins. Meaning there was always something kind of widespread, even if it wasn't at the scale of computer networks connected world wild.
- 1718627440 8mo agoIt's fine if you like that definition, but that is not what we currently use when talking about "social media bans".
- Revolution1120 8mo agoIt's said that people have known about the fear of Satanism since the Middle Ages. How did ancient Satanists communicate? We all know that modern Satanists communicate through the dark web or things like Telegram and WhatsApp.
- simianwords 8mo agoOur conversation
- constantcrying 8mo agoYou are posting this on something which can only be described as "social media". There is enormous value in letting humans communicate freely through the internet and any harm which comes from the misuse needs to be very carefully weighed against the benefits. By the way, fossile fuels are partly responsible for the greatest uplift in human quality of life. Pesticides are essential in creating a sustainable food output.
- simianwords 8mo agomaybe this person is really trying to make this point
- bigbadfeline 8mo agoCollectively, "social media" is basically everything that allows interactive expression and evolution of different opinions online. The manipulation of Big Social is simply a deterrent to that process, in effect it's a tool against good social media. > any harm which comes from the misuse needs to be very carefully weighed against the benefits. Also, misuse can be addressed in different ways, blanket bans and surveillance-enabling authentication are misuse themselves.
- hshdhdhj4444 8mo ago> By the way, fossile fuels are partly responsible for the greatest uplift in human quality of life. Pesticides are essential in creating a sustainable food output. Yeah, and they are not sentient beings we owe something in return to. When they were useful we used them. Now that they’re more harmful than useful we stop using them. I don’t understand the moralizing around that.
- kelseyfrog 8mo agoAnd Carrie Nation was hypocritical for entering bars. The world isn't black and white enough for such gotchas to work.
- trueismywork 8mo agoWhat you probably mean is recommendation systems shoukd be banned
- PearlRiver 8mo agoSocial media algorithms definitely should. Fourteen year old girls do not need an AI to make them even more miserable.