Currently it’s illegal for kids to smoke cigarettes and consume alcohol, none of which are as harmful as social media (or toddlers watching YouTube AI slop on an iPad). If you want you can read any of the gazillion pieces of research on this extremely obvious conclusion.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have read them. Cigarettes give you cancer and is not a hard drug. But it wasn’t my argument. I would think if they’re arguing it so blatantly they would have even a basic summary of why.
This is patriot act levels of invasion. I need some damn answers why we’re doing this all again
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
If civilization ends, it will be because of social media. It elected Trump. Young men worship people like Joe Rogan. Anti-intellectualism is the norm.
Smoking might give you lung cancer, sure, but the moral turpitude promulgated by social media virtually guarantees a destruction of the natural environment that will also give you cancer, to go with the fascism and anti-democracy brainwashing.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I honestly just think you’re wrong. I can see the point you’d like to make. I can give you the benefit of the doubt that social media as it is isn’t great. But I also think you’re wrong
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Idk if you’ve noticed, but in just 15 years, since Facebook burst into the world’s stage, half of America is basically Nazis. People like McCain and Romney seem positively centrist.
Facebook did this in just a few years:
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