Re:Technology shock, fewer shotgun marriages, and the rise i...
by kmeisthax on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:02PM
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The harm that social media platforms cause is not necessarily derived from the politics of their employees, for a few reasons:
1. People adopt political views that they do not act upon consistently.
2. The structure of a particular business can force it to act in contradiction to its political beliefs.
In other words, Meta can say it supports whatever social justice initiative it likes while still acting to the detriment of the groups it claims to protect. The actual business it runs is one where the most profitable thing to do is to screw over the mental health of teenagers because it "boosts engagement". Those teenagers are not anguishing over being "too equal", they are bullying each other with exactly the same cudgels that the social justice left would rather get rid of. Children are bastards, and the business of giving social media accounts to children is profiteering off of making it easier for children to be bastards to one another.
1. People adopt political views that they do not act upon consistently.
2. The structure of a particular business can force it to act in contradiction to its political beliefs.
In other words, Meta can say it supports whatever social justice initiative it likes while still acting to the detriment of the groups it claims to protect. The actual business it runs is one where the most profitable thing to do is to screw over the mental health of teenagers because it "boosts engagement". Those teenagers are not anguishing over being "too equal", they are bullying each other with exactly the same cudgels that the social justice left would rather get rid of. Children are bastards, and the business of giving social media accounts to children is profiteering off of making it easier for children to be bastards to one another.