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.
Attack the actual problem: The owners of propagandized social media platforms owned by billionares that have all the money and reason to use those platforms to gain further influence and power. They are the real reason everything is falling apart; not because a 12 year old is on Twitter.
what the fuck do they have left?
Lots of things! Wellness farms, military readiness camps, factory labor. The possibilities are endless!
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;
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.
You can tell who had the privilege of easily comforting to where they grew up and who never had a choice through conversations on this topic
Our society hates kids and wants them to suffer
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.Everybody knows this age verification crap isn’t about protecting children. If you don’t realize that, you’re naive my dude.
I agree, but that’s not the topic of discussion.
You Free the slaves by banning slavery. Not by banning the biggest slave owners.
Free the kids.
from what?
Brainless take, even thought I think your heart was in the right place.
No u
Ban billionaires.
This is the way. IMO no individual should be allowed to have more wealth than the poorest country. Want to earn more? Uplift the impoverished, then you can.
HEADLINE: Millions die and economies implode in the bloody war to create the planet’s newest, poorest nation.
If you made this rule, poverty would literally be solved by tomorrow.
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.
The people trying to take the internet away from people in your situation are the abusers
Great argument. Thanks for sharing.
Banning billionnaires from participating in economics altogether until they hand it all back to society, increasing equity for all.
believe it or not, that’s exactly what a wealth tax would do.
In the wild, if a primate starts trying to hoard all the resources, they’d beat them to death (as a family).
We decided to put them in charge of everything, and it’s worked out about the way we thought it would.
That’s not how they became billionaires in the first place though. Being banned I mean.
There’s one common element here. Let’s ban social media.
Are us voices in your rectangle so bad that you want us gone? ;(
Bad enough to say it on a meaningless platform. Not enough to actually do anything about it tho.
meaningless platform
And yet here you are.
Because its meaningless, and has very little content.
Isn’t that why most of us are here?
Ban all social media that use dark patterns, addictive tactics, manipulative engagement algorithms, and disseminates propaganda.
We need to define what the problems are because they also exist outside of social media.
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.
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 https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence needs to be widely remembered again, and quickly before it’s too late to undo the damage.
Billionaires would just own social media through proxies. They do this bs all the time.
👉 👉 banning social media from being owned by any single entity
Wouldn’t fix the problems with social media.
MAYBE TEENAGERS SHOULD OWN SOCIAL MEDIA!!!
… /s
Only thing I want billionaires to have is fear.
Good luck with either of those…
Why not ban ownership?
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
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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.
No we cannot coexist, sorry. Tolerance of the intolerable is what has gotten us here to begin with.
As p diddy and r Kelly would say…fuck them kids.
