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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by NalNezumi on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:50AM (#25929699)
This. Im 29 and share the same experience.

And we can even go further back; have people checked, old black & white cartoon? Some of them are so blatantly propaganda/politica/visual horrific that they wouldn't even be aired for 15 y.o today. If you take a closer look, even Tom & Jerry is quite violent, and most Japanese animation that air on kids TV-channel back then also, very sexual.

And these things were airing on TV, broadcasting at a specific time and all you had to do as a kid was to push a couple of buttons to access it.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by simias on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:44AM (#25930366)
Of course there was always violence and sexual content on TV and elsewhere, but comparing Japanese anime and Tom and Jerry to stuff like https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadorVegetable/ (NSFL) or the hardcore porn you can find basically everywhere online is disingenuous. I don't think I'm very squeamish but there's stuff online that still profoundly disturbs me in my mid thirties. Meanwhile, and at the risk of bragging a little, I can watch any Tom and Jerry easily even late at night and still sleep soundly. Hardcore, I know.

You couldn't see the surveillance footage a guy being dismembered by a lathe or weird Japanese rape porn in 1080p by "pushing a couple of buttons" before the internet. Well, at least not where I grew up...

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by Person5478 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:24PM (#25930941)
No one is comparing it, the other poster suggested completely restricting access to the internet because this content exists.
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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by anthk on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:07AM (#25929940)
Well, in Spain I could see Bulma's breasts on manga an Shizuka one's as a dark joke in Doraemon. No one gave a shit, we have far worse real life problems in the 90's.
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