France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

Re:France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s by logicchains on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:13AM (#46776940)

Social media is objectively damaging to the interests of the ruling class, who have been objectively damaging to western civilization during the past decades in which they had near-complete control over the flow of information. It'd be batshit crazy to go back to the times when information flow was centralized in the hands of a few corporations, just because a some neurotics can't handle the increased flow of information from decentralized media.

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Re:France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s by MrToadMan on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:29AM (#46777097)

Isn’t the information flow being controlled by the few major social media players another form of centralisation where their algorithms decide which decentralised voices are heard?

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Re:France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s by forty on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:54AM (#46777280)

> Social media is objectively damaging to the interests of the ruling class,

Maybe double check who owns and controls most social media platforms, and then think a bit if you'd categorize them more in the ruling class or working class.

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Re:France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s by kakacik on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:23AM (#46777530)

Thats not argument for anything in this topic. The choice was never binary and it seems you don't understand the discussion.

That illuminati mumbo jumbo part doesn't deserve a comment.

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