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Old 02-19-2022, 06:49 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SGR View Post
It's not that difficult to stop your children from getting on those apps or sites, within your household. A lot of parents just don't take those sort of precautions or measures.

Even if you deal with the issues you're talking about, parents are still the first line of defense for their children - in this case, parents would have to prevent their children from watching communist porn, where hammers and sickles are going up some bougie chick's ass.
Bro do you not remember people saying that parents should make sure kids don't watch too much tv or play too many video games? The simple truth is that the human race does not function in such a way as to limit exposure to media. It simply doesn't and no amount of handwringing will change that. This is simply how we function psychologically when presented with these stimuli.

If you want this to change you have to go up the ladder. Stop being the absolute embodiment of the concept "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism".

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Tbh I don't know exactly why social media and/or algorithms aren't more heavily regulated in terms of what they're allowed to do or not.

I thought maybe it's because many or most legislators are simply clueless about how to tackle the issue, but I don't know. It looks to me like it should be less about party politics and more about keeping society from going ape****.

At least it gives me a little comfort to know that facebook/meta stocks' value recently plunged. Seems user growth has stagnated for fb.
Because it makes money, smart guy. They care more about money than your wellbeing in case you hadn't noticed. American chattel slavery and the Belgian Congo should have been a couple hints.
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