Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon General Warns

Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by SV_BubbleTime on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:39AM (#36045908)

Yea! What could go wrong asking the government to record your identity to your technology!? Surely YOUR favorite party will always be in power and this power would never fall into the hands of the bad people.

> remember V-Chip?

Remember it didn’t work and was only pushed for by a bureaucracy that eventually did nothing but make regulation into the TV market and surely some Clinton connected suppliers of the IP very happy?

No is the answer whenever someone proposes “the aught to be a law”. There almost always aught’n’t.

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Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by mrguyorama on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:13PM (#36047450)

V-Chip was actually great for the small niche of parents that cared enough about their kids, had a large amount of cable TV channels, thought some of them were inappropriate, and were willing to put in effort to read an instruction manual.

The problem was that generation was so fucking lazy they refused to read a paragraph of an instruction manual to stop the "12:00" blinking on their VCRs, and spent all their time blaming everyone else for the problems they were causing, like violent videogames.

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