What Should Be Done About Social Media?

Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by abootstrapper on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:21AM (#25120819)

Sorry, I’m still hung up on the drug metaphor. Regulation of drugs does work. You know your prescription of X is not cut or laced with something because it’s regulated. It’s how you know how strong your alcohol is. It’s how you know what your buying is what it is claimed to be. I trust the pharmacy over the street corner. To reiterate, I’m pro legalization, but I’m also pro regulating.

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Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by root_axis on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:12PM (#25128226)

I think the analogy works well in the sense that we know we don't want to live in a world where the government is restricting what types of websites are legal in the same way they decide what types of drugs are legal. Even trying to pin down what counts as "social media" is pretty difficult.

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Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by offtop5 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:55PM (#25127005)

Basically I don't think drug prohibition works and thus , even though social media is very harmful, a social media prohibition would also fail.

You can only make the choice to not poison yourself.

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