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

• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • amorpheus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unless society as a whole is ready to move beyond capitalism that won’t change.

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