Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content.

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• cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My mom mentioned that my dad has been watching some concerning (in her words, “annoying”) YouTube content lately. Last time she said that it was America’s Got Talent, but this time it’s white men arguing with cops. I visited and asked if he would show me. He jokingly said “are you gonna violate my rights?” And I very seriously said “yes. I need to make sure it’s not Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan or someone even worse”. He got a little bit offended and said “you know me better than that, I’m smarter than that”. But the thing is, you start by watching something innocuous like some idiot sovcit arguing with cops and the algorithm pipeline feeds you nazi shit from there and you don’t even know it.

  For context, my parents are the kind of leftists that don’t know what leftists are. My mom calls herself a bleeding heart liberal, and my dad sees the media say things like “radical liberals” and jumps up off the couch screaming “you bet your ass im a radical liberal!” But they’re left of liberal, they just don’t have the language for it.

  I’m not worried that my dad is gonna seek out nazi propaganda, im worried it’s gonna find him anyway and I want to throw his phone in a lake.

  Maybe shower thoughts wasn’t the right community for me to have my existential crisis. But I wish i could block “sovcit” on my dad’s phone and “trad-anything” on my mom’s phone, not because I think they’re dumb (okay maybe a little) but because this shit is so toxic and intrinsic and scary and my parents are so dumb.

  Take care of yourself and your loved ones xx

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sending love, you’re awesome

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Must be nice to have parents that haven’t turned out to be complete sociopaths.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was interested in Diablo IV when it was released which, after a few videos, led YouTube to recommend Asmondgold. I watched one or two of his videos and the next thing I know my feed is full of maga and manosphere trash. Most of it had innocuous titles and thumbnails but a few minutes in I was being bombarded with lies, bad faith arguments, logical fallacies. Don’t even get me started with where funny Garand Thumb videos will lead. All I could think of was how Al Queda and ISIS recruited people with videos posted online.

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    • Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Leftists really do need to do more gaming content.Thats all I’ll say.

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same thing happened with me and Shadiversity. I like medieval stuff and fantasy so i thought he’d be interesting.

      Noooope. Just another fash scumbag.

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imo Asmongold is good to mid, until he starts getting political, then it plummets into awful. Also yeah I think the garand thumb to far right pipeline is very real, the guy is actually quite extreme iirc

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• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  south park did it.

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And they all started playing Minecraft unironically.

    Love that episode.

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i do, too, but their portrayal of minecraft was hilariously bad

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• jonne@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you set up parental controls on your parent’s devices I can guarantee they won’t find a way around it.

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    my grandpa with dementia installed OVER 40 solitaire apps because he would go to the app store and install one every time instead of opening the ones he “couldn’t find”

    now he has parental controls blocking app downloading

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hope you guys checked for subscriptions he may have added. Might still be paying for a dozen of those games.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m glad he has you/y’all Toadski

      <3

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  • StaticFalconar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thats all good for kids since they dont know any better to begin with. Parents will bitch and complain they can no longer watch Fox news to enough people, and ‘the problem’ will get fixed.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They will, usually by accident. Source: my father in law.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You block Fox News using a Pi-hole?

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