Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media

Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re right that as an adult I still really want some ice cream every time I see it. But I have the life experience and mental development that enables me to control myself because I understand the negative consequences that can happen over time. Children have not developed these skills yet.

  Laws have to be applied unilaterally. If you start applying these kinds of restrictions to all adults you end up like the UK and Republican states where you have to pass a job-interview-style screening to open pornhub.com.

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those skills are too far taken for granted. It’s the very reason you see increased crime and addiction in high poverty areas. Families who had good access to healthcare, education, work opportunities, … those families were privileged enough to learn the value in self control far more naturally. Families that struggled to put food on the table, parents in and out of jail, constant exposure to drug use, … those families experience a much different reality and the kids are statistically more likely to reproduce that experience in their own adult life.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have the life experience and mental development that enables me to control myself

    That’s good for you but most adults clearly don’t have that either. And as you know we all reap the benefits of others’ poor choices. So fuck them? And fuck us all as a society? Fuck anyone over the age of 17?

    If you start applying these kinds of restrictions to all adults you end up like the UK and Republican states where you have to pass a job-interview-style screening to open pornhub.com.

    I am implying they should be applied unilaterally, not only to adults, and not only to children.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So you are actually, truly, pro-interview-for-porn because some adults have no self control? I think you will find that stance to be wildly unpopular.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s very clearly not what I said or insinuated in any way.

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  100% But with adults one can always blame the agency of the individual. not so much for children.

  that’s why children are always brought up when trying to censor things or contol the population.

  Although in this case I agree. those platforms are designed to be as addictive as possible. my life significantly improved after I used yt revanced to eliminate shorts. because I lack the self control to ignore them.

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