| ▲ | nomilk a day ago | |||||||||||||
> Are you suggesting porn, violence, and other mind bending content is not present on social media? If protecting kids from porn is the objective, the most obvious thing to do would be to require age verification for porn sites, not some other random websites that happen to have occasional porn. Ironically, kids will now have to visit much more hardcore sites (4chan etc - ones without age verification) if they want to socialise online. The effects will be similar to banning alcohol, it doesn't decrease demand, just pushes it elsewhere creating worse problems along the way. See: perverse incentives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#Examples_of... | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | djtango a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
Why is it 4chan and not WhatsApp groups? The internet was wild before social media but somehow the weird stuff remained fringe before recommendation algorithms and the perverse incentives that emerged from recommendation algorithms and content creation meant that feeds became an on ramp to all kinds of nasty things I'm not exactly a greybeard but I remember when happy slapping was a viral phenomenon but that seems pretty tame by comparison these days | ||||||||||||||
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