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Of course, many countries and states are doing similar things. Don't believe what they tell you, though. It's not about "rotting their brains", it's about socia
by phendrenad2 7mo ago
Of course, many countries and states are doing similar things. Don't believe what they tell you, though. It's not about "rotting their brains", it's about social control. It's about keeping them from reading "misinformation" and "disinformation" at an early age, and coming to distrust "official" sources. This buys the government 15 whole years of pure, unadulterated, propaganda. Hope it makes good little citizens. Probably won't, though.
- SubmarineClub 7mo agoBecause everyone uncritically accepted government propaganda before social media came around?
- ramon156 7mo agoWhen I was 13-14 I believed a lot of bullshit. You might not remember so, and probably think you were very different and unique and special, but you too were not immune to propaganda.
- Natfan 7mo agowhen i was 13-14 i was taught by the youtube algorithm to hate women and "SJWs" this is, in my opinion, worse than goverment propaganda
- KyleTheDev 7mo agoAh, the old, "This thing happened to me, and even if other people say it didn't happen to them IT MUST have happened to them and their denial of it just makes me even more justified" argument.
- kjkjadksj 7mo agoWhat’s this, the old “I’m too smart for propaganda to work on me?”
- phendrenad2 7mo agoNice strawman, I guess?
- _se 7mo agoSocial media is so, so much worse than anything a government could come up with. This is a good thing for the world even if there are ulterior motives at play.
- sunaookami 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
- _se 7mo agoYes, social media creates useful idiots, you are correct. And also possibly one of them, if you're arguing that it somehow makes people smarter or more informed.
- bcjdjsndon 7mo agoYou're on it right now, this terrible, evil social media. Vaguely defined as it is
- xigoi 7mo agoI also don’t think people under 15 should use Hacker News.
- _se 7mo agoMassively different from algorithmic doom scrolling feeds. I would call HN a type of social media lite, but not the type of social media that's leading to generation-wide mental health issues in children/teens.
- bcjdjsndon 6mo ago> leading to generation-wide mental health issues in children/teens. Is it though? Because half of these conditions didn't even exist 50 years ago so naturally the data will see an increase
- phendrenad2 7mo ago