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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by redleggedfrog on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:53AM (#28524805)
You're assuming people have morals to appeal to - most don't. When everyone is connected to everyone else the asshole always prevail. The solution is to sever the connections.
Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by aduitsis on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:40AM (#28525531)
One would dare say that an overwhelming majority of people does have morals.

But a very small minority that doesn't have morals, is causing the illusion that it's most people that don't have them.

Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by wyre on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:11PM (#28526916)
As individuals, maybe, but as a society I have a hard time seeing proof when there is normalized wage slavery, the animal industrial complex, and any industry with money or power is deeply corrupted.

Right now we have a large percentage of people that refuse to get a vaccine to protect their neighbors.

Everyone might have morals, but the bar is low.

Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by seneca on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:43PM (#28527374)
Other people not sharing your values is not the same as them not having morals at all.
Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by Nagyman on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:59AM (#28525867)
[citation needed]

I don't know many such morally-absent folks. Perhaps the perverse incentives in our system mean a bunch of CEOs are quite sociopathic, but on the whole, people seem rather good intentioned to me. The internet certainly serves as a platform for many that would be otherwise shunned IRL, but I don't think they're the general majority...just the majority that decide to voice their opinions. The rest aren't even paying attention - only a small fraction of people have a Twitter account, for example.

Even reddit, which can be anonymous, is filled with good discourse, assuming you avoid certain subreddits, and sort by top. Moderation goes a long way to mimicking our more natural IRL tendencies to turn down the assholes. Twitter and Instagram generally lack those tools, so the assholes can be louder and _seem_ more prominent than they are.