I notice you left education off that list
Providing healthcare and social services is not inherently about controlling how people think and what information they have access to.
krashmo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
“Why the education system is horrible and needs to be dismantled and entirely reconsidered” is slightly off topic, but yeah you got me I do not think the argument is all that different wrt education. It is very different from those other things though.
krashmo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its perfectly relevant to my point, which is that the government is already involved in the sort of behavior we’re discussing. If we accept that preventing societal damage, or promoting social well being, or whatever else you want to call it, is a part of what the government exists to do, then why would something like preventing mega corporations from ruining the development of children fall outside its purview?
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I accept that providing social commons which are largely independent from culture and belief is the legitimate purview of the government, but there should be a line right there because when governments manipulate their populations to think or behave a certain way it usually isn’t towards the best interests of the people.
Which isn’t to say that nothing should be done to prevent mega corporations manipulating people, I just don’t think that should come in the form of things like, for instance, what they’ve actually done with TikTok since this article was written, which is mandate the creation of a US specific version that is obligated to be increasingly friendly to the propaganda interests of the current regime.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
The thing that none of these moral panic people want you to talk about is who is deciding what is and isn’t acceptable for everyone’s children. They’ve already admitted the intent to use this to censor everything LGBT so that’s not a slippery slope that’s just factual reality