Submitted 3 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/
Microsite Highlighting Evidence from the Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials.
New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents
This article is pro KOSA Act. A tainted report
The two options always seem to be:
Option 1: Do the thing that expands the hyper-surveillance police state.
Option 2: Do nothing and wait for the problem to get worse, until you’re compelling to accept Option 1.
Which is why we need to replace the people deciding what the options are.
Option 3: Detonate a nuclear warhead in Arasaka HQ.
It’s the same model as religion and cigarettes: Get ‘em hooked young and you have a customer for as long as they live.
This explains so much! So THAT’S why I masturbate! I was addicted as a teenager, and I guess I’m going to be addicted for life.
The trick is convincing people that a literal body function is shameful and some kind of sin.
Its was also Epsteins priority for his clients.
In other news: water is wet.
water is not wet, it makes thing wet
Water is in contact with itself, therefore water is wet
Water makes other water wet. If you have a single water molecule then it is not wet, as it has no other water to make it wet. Otherwise water, as a grouping of multiple adjacent molecules, makes itself wet.
No shit, Sherlock.
This is why I am glad that social media is slowly becoming age gated in other countries.
Litterally just reading about the reading crisis and how we don’t know why it is so bad…
Maybe there’s a link between the two.
This is not a reason to pass Kosa, KOSA does not address these problems. These companies need dismantled.
And people will still say… “oh just parent your kids”… In the face of this and all the other pulls on time and energy in the real world as well as how fast it all changes, it’s so hard to just parent your kids. We can’t rely on every individual parent staying up to date on and understanding how to get around all of this.
Unfortunately, they’ve been so successful, we won’t be able to get our kids to read this report.
See also: LLMs
I misread this as “teen pregnancy” at first and with everything going on, i believed it.
I called this years ago. I could see the Dopamine addiction happening, and knew these psychopaths would lean into it and try to weaponize it, and they have. Of course, they have.
It’s not the first time. Tobacco companies were found to manipulate their formulations to make theor products addict users quicker, addict them stronger, and make it harder to quit, all while denying the addictive properties, and even the obvious health issues.
Oil companies had their own studies back in the 80s, that clearly predicted Climate Change from fossil fuels, and yet they continue to deny it to this day.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the think tanks that fund and support the Conservative Propaganda Machine have also done studies to identify the addictive properties and triggers in their propaganda, and manipulate it for maximum effect.
WHEN we take back our country, and make major changes to get away from the ugly conservative society that they’ve tried to force upon us for decades, the addictive properties of “products” need to be identified and strongly regulated, to avoid exploiting unsuspecting citizens.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
O:
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Did you copy it from the Internet, or did you do it yourself?
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I am nothing but a peddler of stolen ASCII art and memes I’m afraid.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
At least in Linux, you can do this with any image using something like jp2a which is usually packaged into any distro repo.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
nao@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
surprised pikachu