There’s one common element here. Let’s ban social media.
Banning from social media
Submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are us voices in your rectangle so bad that you want us gone? ;(
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Bad enough to say it on a meaningless platform. Not enough to actually do anything about it tho.
tempest@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If you ban social media only criminals will have social media…
Seriously though I’m not even sure how you define social media such that it couldn’t be gamed into meaninglessness.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That is the central problem with all of this.
Oh, you want the government to regulate “social media”, like requiring age verification and such things? Because you are noticing young people being “addicted” (what you mean is having a habit, or hobby, that you don’t like) to TikTok or Instagram or what?
OK, have fun without wikis, public git repos, public tech support forums that aren’t financially able to comply with any of these regulations. What do you mean that’s not what you meant! You said social media, social media is any website that allows the general public to publish information and read information published on it, so clearly that’s exactly what you meant!
This www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence needs to be widely remembered again, and quickly before it’s too late to undo the damage.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ban billionaires.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
This is the way.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
My parents were involved in a cult, and I never would have made it out if I didn’t have normies on the internet telling me that being in a mass marriage ceremony to Jesus at 17 was fucked up.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
kalapala@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Billionaires would just own social media through proxies. They do this bs all the time.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Banning billionnaires from participating in economics altogether until they hand it all back to society, increasing equity for all.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
believe it or not, that’s exactly what a wealth tax would do.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s not how they became billionaires in the first place though. Being banned I mean.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
👉 👉 banning social media from being owned by any single entity
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
We shouldn’t do either nor do we need to. Billionaire-owned social media can continue to exist if people want it. The important thing is that there must be alternatives to it.
And the result of literally any new government regulation of “social media” (I still don’t like that term, but if everyone is using it, so am I) at all, including but not limited to age verification, is to make that harder.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
As p diddy and r Kelly would say…fuck them kids.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Take away the kids access to communicate with friends and what the fuck do they have left? It’s not like we have youth centers or shit any more. Barely had any when I was a kid; that’s why I fell in love with the internet.
Carnelian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lots of things! Wellness farms, military readiness camps, factory labor. The possibilities are endless!
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
How the fuck is banning kids from social media taking away their access to communication with their friends? That’s a non-sequiter.
BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Before the Internet, kids lived isolated existences that precluded communication. They would sit in their rooms, listen to records, and engage in immoral masterbatory behavior.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
because they made friends through social media and have no other communication channels with those friends?
alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not taking away kids access to communicate with friends though. There’s a million and one ways kids can communicate these days. It’s taking away adults’ access to other people’s children.
I agree the pedogarchy is the main issue here, and if you kept up with the 1% of files that were released you would know that having access to children on social media was part of their plan. We can attack that plan from both ends without some slippery slope bullshit about how children need facebook to stay in touch with each other. We all know that’s some grade a bolognium.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
well, i grew up in the countryside and we did have youth centers. i can guarantee you i made a wide circle around them, in the sense that i avoided them like the plague
it’s not the absence of youth centers that’s the problem, it’s the fact that i grew up in a very backwards rural countryside full of the exact type of shitheads that you would expect to find there. one person more annoying than the next, the excesses in alcohol consumption weren’t the worst part, it was how people looked at people who didn’t fit their definition of “normal”. really not a good place to be.
far_university1990@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Educate child and parent on how social media and internet work and give parent powerful content restrict tool.
Otherwise no internet access for child.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You Free the slaves by banning slavery. Not by banning the biggest slave owners.
Free the kids.