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Re:Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18 by gjsman-1000 on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:05PM (#33924453)
In China, social media is regulated and enforces that children be shown content that is generally related to STEM or other achievements. No stupid dance videos, no memes, no stupid trends - it's "check out this algorithm I wrote!" Many of the top-trending videos on TikTok would actually be banned.

Is it malicious? I think so, though not everyone agrees, but the outcome is the same both ways: I would say it is indoctrination into stupidity, not an ideology.

Remember, these are the future soldiers who could, potentially, fight China in a Taiwan skirmish. If they only know how to communicate by meme, can't spell anything, have no sense of achievement, and all dream of being YouTube stars, you've won before firing a single shot.

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Re:Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18 by MonkeyMalarky on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:15PM (#33924562)
And here I thought it was all a conspiracy to infect American teens with imaginary mental illnesses.
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Re:Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18 by dpkirchner on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:23PM (#33924678)
I thought it was an app intended to show users content they might enjoy enough that they might also view ads between content, all in order to make a profit.
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Re:Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18 by slowmovintarget on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:46PM (#33924997)
> "I don't understand anything," she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact. "Nothing. Least of all," she continued in another tone "why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly, ..." -- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Re:Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18 by orwin on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:21PM (#33924652)
Not chineese, not from the US either, still i installed ticktock roughly 6 month ago and for now, i mostly had science and tech pushed to me. Some with nice music too!

[just read paragraph 2 and 3 from the parent, yeah, sorry for taking it seriously]

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