very worrying study, essentially its a digital->neurochemistry chasm crossing substance that uses the 2 senses.

all more reasons to heavily discourage the usage of short form content , we might require regulations against what is essentially an invisible drug that rapidly replicate and distribute itself among the masses.

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gunsle 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Full social media ban would be easier and more effective imo. Public spaces would come back to life in no time at all if social media was heavily curtailed or banned entirely. This would be an obvious win for everyone involved outside of the terminally online and corporations benefiting from their lack of self control.

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thin_carapace 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

define short form content as anything under an arbitrary time threshold, legislate all online providers of short form content to mandate an arbitrary time limit per day for all users, add a law that parents knowingly allowing children to exceed national daily short form content limits are subject to penalty. seems fairly straightforward. but uh, I guess we could all capitulate to giving corporations our biometric data ...

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fl4regun 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

I don't think it's straightforward at all. What's considered "short form content".

Just video?

Does just audio count?

Does a gif count?

What if I make a website that uploads videos at 1/10th the speed, and the user plays it back 10x faster so it becomes short form?

What if i make a video aggregator website that pulls from multiple different sources so the user gets around the time limit per day per user?

What if users just make multiple accounts?

I don't think we are legally equipped to deal with this at all.

	▲	santadays 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		How about anything that tracks the user's behavior and changes its output based on that behavior specific to that user. If I have a table somewhere in my software that identifies a user and references behavior, not intentional settings, just behavior and that is used to determine what the software does. Make that illegal and a lot of problems go away. To me it is this feedback loop that is insidious.
	▲	f1shy 17 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Let me add, it sound very much like 3D-prohibition for guns. The total demonization of anything, because it could be bad, given certain conditions, is a recipe for disaster. As you say, is extremely difficult to define where are the limits, and the extremely hard to apply the limits without screwing over millions.
	▲	thin_carapace 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		study each proposed form of short form content regarding impact on cognitive function and select the most destructive forms for legislation. if you make a website that provides short form content you are subject. why would an aggregator be excluded? go ahead and let users make multiple accounts. the current, invalid, answer here is biometric provisioning (done not to protect anything but government and corporate interests). personally I don't care if an adult wants to fry their brain, provided that they have been adequately educated as to the extent of what they are doing to themselves. it's why I included the parental proviso, because protection from brain frying is most important during childhood.