| ▲ | basisword 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
>> Our kids are up against problems we didn't have during the great expansion of social. I'm not sure I agree with this. Our societies globally have become hugely polarised and are manipulated daily because of social media. The damage done by social media is 100x greater than any good that came from it and the lives of adults have been affected by on it a societal level at least as much as the danger to kids. It isn't possible, but if social media was suddenly completely unavailable I think the world would get a lot better in a very short period of time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lurk2 3 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> Our societies globally have become hugely polarised and are manipulated daily because of social media. Watching 18 year old kids getting drone striked every other day has done more for the anti-war movement than a hundred years of post-WW1 globalist utopianism. The only demographic of war hawks you find online anymore are psychotics and boomers, both being unfit for military service. This is the fundamental reason why western countries are turning on social. The TikTok ban had less to do with Chinese influence campaigns and more to do with it being a platform where Israeli war crimes were openly discussed without being hindered by shadow algorithms. You’re seeing Zionists like Larry Ellison make plays in the media space for the same reason; military-aged white men are going off the plantation, and Zionists feel threatened by it. That is literally all these bans are intended to remedy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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