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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by kubectl_h on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @08:16AM (#38378717)
> Does that mean that we shouldn't have done it?

We can only change what we can change and that is in the past. I think it's reasonable to ask if the phones and the communication tools they provide are good for our future. I don't understand why the people on this site (generally builders of technology) fall into the teleological trap that all technological innovation and its effects are justifiable because it follows from some historical precedent.

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:30PM (#38396517)
I just don't agree that social media is particularly harmful, relative to other things that humans have invented. To be brutally honest, people blame new forms of media for pre existing dysfunctions of society and I find it tiresome. That's why I like the printing press analogy.
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