Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
Korkki@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
The real issue is that most social media is for-profit addiction machine breeding more and more anti-social behavior, not that kids have access to it. This is just a another example that liberals are incapable of seeing any ill in rampant capitalism or much less intervene in it’s mechanism for the common good. Everything is framed around profit seeking bringing out the greatest good and individuals choice. They are very at a loss when having to to do any systemic analysis why social-media has ill effects on social fabric. The best they can come up is that kids are not yet fully formed adults able to do the right choice, so they must be guided.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yeah. I’m pretty sure for profit social media isn’t good for anyone. Adults shouldn’t use it either. But we decided long ago that you can’t stop adults from drinking or smoking weed, so adults are just mature enough to handle it or approach lies and manipulation with more skepticism, but I look around and see it’s not true.
I feel like at least things like Lemmy and Mastodon are much easier to filter or walk away from when you aren’t in the right emotional space.
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Because lemmy and mastodon don’t have manipulative algorithms! Maybe we should just outlaw those? /showerthoughts