| ▲ | dd8601fn 7 hours ago |
| This reminds me of the TikTok ban that lasted all of twelve seconds. I’ve been using the internet for longer than I care to admit, and I’ve never seen anything like it. It was like 300 million junkies all lost their drug supplier at the same time. |
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| ▲ | advisedwang 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > the TikTok ban that lasted all of twelve seconds The TikTok ban successfully forced the sale of the US TikTok operations. I wouldn't be so dismissive of it. |
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| ▲ | Terr_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > This reminds me of the TikTok ban that lasted all of twelve seconds. That timeline has way more to do with the corrupt politicians than consumer behavior. _______________ Both in the sense that the original semi-bipartisan law should've been ruled unconstitutional [0], and also in how the Republican party turned around and broke portions of that law for months until Trump could ensure the assets were handed to his major donor buddy--and fixing none of the original PRC influence issues. [1] [0] https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/banning-tiktok-i... [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its... |
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| ▲ | xg15 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I found it interesting that congress never took issue with any other social media platform, and was fine with TikTok once again as well after it was sold to an American owner. So looks like politicians never had any problem with the addictiveness of social media, they only have a problem when it's used by foreign adversaries and not by domestic companies... | | |
| ▲ | XorNot 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Absolutely no one was running it on "social media is harmful". The policy was overtly that it had to be American owned. |
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| ▲ | NickC25 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >and also in how the Republican party turned around and broke portions of that law for months until Trump could ensure the assets were handed to his major donor buddy--and fixing none of the original PRC influence issues. [1] Are you even remotely surprised by that? Honestly. |
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| ▲ | thinkingtoilet 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's literally what it was. These technologies are addicting. Is it as bad or the same as heroin? No. However, they are designed to be addicting. |
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| ▲ | cmoski 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not as good as heroin either. | |
| ▲ | shimman 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Well seeing how we are all granted with one single life, maybe we should be more upset at things that take away our valuable time and replace it with things that make us angry? Who's to say that these things aren't worse than heroin? Lots of people would argue otherwise, I'm becoming one of them myself. Heroin only impacts one individual, social media impacts every connected person on the planet. Mass misery is still misery. | | |
| ▲ | bheadmaster 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | We should, but we also shouldn't decide what other people consider proper use of their time | | |
| ▲ | nathan_compton 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't think this is obvious at all. I think its a reasonable function of the state to pursue policies that improve the mental and physical health of its citizens, partly because the negative effects of an unhealthy population are not limited to the individuals who are unhealthy. Liberty is great. I wouldn't want to live anywhere where it wasn't one of the primary goals of a society, but there is no stone tablet from God saying its needs to be the only goal a society can set. | | |
| ▲ | bheadmaster 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | When you say "a society" sets a goal, it always implies a ruling group of people imposing their view of the common good unto everyone. How do you make sure that whoever makes that choice makes it in a way you yourself will agree with? | | |
| ▲ | fireflash38 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Do you seriously believe that is not happening now? Or that even a libertarian utopia could manage to achieve agreement? If you're going to get philosophical, go all the way. Why have society at all because it's just people imposing their will on others? Or do you at least agree that there exists a line? | | |
| ▲ | sokoloff an hour ago | parent [-] | | Even though there clearly must be a line on some topics, many people think those lines should be placed to minimize the number of times people are forced to do something (or prevented from doing something) against their will. It’s not at all obvious that “adults can’t have TikTok” is anywhere near the correct side of that line. |
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| ▲ | nathan_compton an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think a mature person accepts some compromise with society at large. How do you make sure your wife always wants to do what you want? You don't. You live with other people, depend on them, pay for them when they are sick or poor (one way or another). You can't escape society. All that the libertarian view appears to do is make everyone miserable with externalities that a properly functioning state would regulate out of existence. People's lives are ruined by gambling all the time, for instance. It is dumb to pretend like the pleasure a few people get out of it is worth someone betting away his family's welfare. It is ok to just decide "this needs to be regulated." Not everything is some intractible philosophical mystery that no consensus will ever coalesce around. Not every single thing every single person wants needs to be taken seriously. |
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| ▲ | pembrook 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > It was like 300 million junkies all lost their drug supplier at the same time. No, it was not. It was actually nothing like that. No babies were left to die because their parents were out searching for tiktok clips. I saw no people whoring themselves on the street just to see a few tiktok clips. I heard no stories of children stealing from their own family to get a few scrolls of tiktok. There was no people killing each other just to get a hit of tiktok. Let's not trivialize something like drug addiction by comparing it to kids procrastinating by watching their TV phone app. |
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| ▲ | rjbwork 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think you're probably vastly discounting the amount of childhood neglect wrought by social media addiction on both the parent and child's parts. | | |
| ▲ | pembrook 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | No, I'm not. The median child of a social media user (so basically, the median child) is vastly more well off than the median child of a heroin/crack cocaine user and its not even close. The fact you're suggesting otherwise is quite frankly hilarious. Glad I could draw attention to the irrational logic of the current "social media is evil" moral panic. |
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| ▲ | ori_b 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | True facts. My friend spent an entire day without weed once, and he killed 3 people, and abandoned seven babies. Four of which weren't even his! | | | |
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