Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies

Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s just an analogy.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s crazy how many commenters here are completely missing the point. I should really stop assuming people have any sort of intelligence.

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    • TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The tobacco industry was monopoly busted, and heavily regulated for 30 years. That’s the point. Yes they still exist, but not like they did in 1970. We should do that to social media. It’s crazy how you missed that point yet harp about intelligence. Read a book jackass

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      • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s crazy how you missed that point yet harp about intelligence.

        I’m not sure why you said that. The person you are responding didn’t ‘miss that point’. They were themselves pointing out that other people have missed it. You are both criticising people for missing the same point.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The flaw in the analogy is that it assumes that those effects are limited to some companies when in reality every single company that existed in history has behaved this way if they weren’t stopped by regulation.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The flaw in the analogy is that it assumes that those effects are limited to some companies

      no it doesn’t.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Most companies aren’t peddling a toxic product like cigarettes (or social media).

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      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But they are peddling a toxic behaviour of unnecessary and uninhibited consumption.

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• Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I argue junk food commercials draw a lot of parallels with cigarette commercials of the past.

  Especially soft drinks.Coca Cola especially really loves to tie emotions and sports/holidays to sugar water.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Muted in the English world.

    I don’t know think you’ve been to Europe much… Just a guess

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  • Broken@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, considering all the tobacco companies entrenched themselves in food companies you’re basically right.

    It’s why foods are addictive, and have very little nutritional value. It’s beyond “oh no its full of sugar” it the fact that everything is processed and is full of fake sugar (as an example).

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• TacticalCheddar@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They were never defeated.

  When you say “defeated”, what exactly do you mean? You mean that they should cease to exist to be considered as such? If that’s the case then I would say it’s an unrealistic expectation.

  I would say that they’ve been largely contained. If I remember correctly, back in the '50s almost half of the American population used to smoke. The percentage of people smoking has been consistently decreasing over the years thanks to regulation and increased taxation. Tobacco companies are definetly not as influential as they once were.

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• Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You made me notice that a lot of companies learned from tobacco companies not just those XD

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