You just had to stop after the first 2 words.
In both frames!
Yes you go from child to adult… Skipping teenage entirely. Cause fuck puberty
Pourquoi pas les deux?
Banning billionaires
The only way to do this is if meaningful alternatives exist first.
you can’t ban corporate-owned social media because the population would revolt. It’s already revolting when social media is about to be banned for teenagers. just ask anyone on lemmy about this.
the fediverse needs to become an acceptable alternative first, only after that can people move away from big corpo-owned networks.
Pro tip but billionaires don’t need to own things
Or you could expropriate it instead of banning it making all of this moot.
Addicts tend to suffer if you cut them off. We need to wean people off it.
I wish there was a way to litigate bans made by corporate media because I just got a twitter account banned for being fucking fake or some shit and i appealed it and they were like, lol, no. No further appeals. Literally not a thing i can do. And it’s kinda galling when i get DMs from obvious bots 10000x a day and they do NOTHING against those, despite them being so very obviously fake. And here I am being told IM the fake one and I don’t even deserve to look at thirsty shit and jerk off because of it??
both is good
A little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.
It has been proven that social media damages teeneagers’s development and self-worth. Or anyone here is going to attempt to deny this?
Either parents get way, way, way better at managing this or someone else has to do it.
It has been proven that social media damages teeneagers’s development and self-worth. Or anyone here is going to attempt to deny this?
This is almost entirely a side effect of social media being privately owned and made to be as addictive rage inducing etc as possible as it brings the most clicks and profit.
Thank you, that’s what I was thinking too
Marx did an entire chapter on it in Capital Vol. 1. Tools and machinery that theoretically should be a positive for workers are instead used to exploit them further.
This is such absolute cope that lacks real world nuance… The problem with social media is the nature of social media in the aggregate. Specially for younger minds. That is not to say that it will not affect adults as well.
Social media is addictive period, and how some of them interact against the human condition. Making it not privately owned would not fix this. Say the government owning it, or having extreme control over it, mostly devolves into a tool of control and surveillance. As it can be demonstrated in some countries.
it is true that socialedia is made way more addictive due to incentiviing profit, you are correct there. But for example, studies show that despite the addictive nature of platforms like Instagram, girls self’s worth gets utterly destroyed by merely using the app, over time. Addiction not required.
The present form of social media is not some neutral expression of “human nature.” It is the product of platforms designed under capitalist ownership to maximize engagement, advertising exposure, data extraction, and retention. That means the most emotionally provocative, addictive, rage-inducing, insecurity-producing content gets structurally rewarded because it keeps people scrolling.
Yes, adolescent minds are more vulnerable. Yes, social comparison can damage self-worth, especially among girls. But that does not refute my point; it supports it. Instagram does not simply “show girls images.” It ranks, recommends, amplifies, tests, optimizes, and monetizes content through engagement systems designed to put forth the most inflammatory emotionally charged content possible (bodydysmorphia tier influencers followed directly by weight loss drug ads).
Also scare mongering about “evil CCP surveillance” is fucking silly. Our government listens to and is accountable to us unlike your digital overlords.
Porky no lost dose?
I think there are better solutions for harm reduction than banning teens
Then get busy!
