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A comment on TikTok’s Poison Pill. Parent comment

Re:TikTok’s Poison Pill by MichaelCollins on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:49PM (#32334070)
> Unfortunately regulations will always be one step behind. Asking for them is victim mentality.

Is this a self-serving idea you apply only to the industry you work in, or is this a general principle you apply to all industries? Do you feel this way about the petroleum and chemical industries? The pharmaceutical industries? Food processing? The nuclear industry?

Are all industrial regulations instances of 'victim mentality', or only those that apply to your industry?

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Re:TikTok’s Poison Pill by TechBro8615 on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:50PM (#32337008)
I’m not sure where you got the idea that I harbor some absolutist opposition to regulation in any industry, or even in the social media industry for that matter. My comment listed specific examples of social media regulation that I would support.

My goal was simply to highlight the naïveté of thinking regulations alone will solve the problem, unless the USPS is going to send a weekly pill bottle of amphetamines to every citizen who is vulnerable to the dangers of social media addiction.

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