News NYC, it's school system, and the public hospital system come together and sue Social Media giants.

[NWRMidnight]

Thank you for proving my point.

What point is that? The point that you refuse to acknowledge that they are the same, and can't dispute that fact now? Or is it the fact that social media, video games, tv/movies, music, etc are not the problem and just something to blame so the real problem can continue to be ignored?

 

[woolfe9998]

It's the same in terms of the "addiction" aspect. It isn't the same in terms of the harm which may be caused by the content. The problem is the OP article muddles and conflates the two, which is why I thought they should be addressed separately. It's "addictiveness" isn't really the point as lots of things are "addictive" according to the increasingly loose way that word is defined these days.

 

[NWRMidnight]

It's the same in terms of the "addiction" aspect. It isn't the same in terms of the harm which may be caused by the content. The problem is the OP article muddles and conflates the two, which is why I thought they should be addressed separately. It's "addictiveness" isn't really the point as lots of things are "addictive" according to the increasingly loose way that word is defined these days.

Are you sure? The same arguments have been made, and are continuely made about video games, TV, movies, music, etc., they are just no longer in the forfront. It's not video games, its the content that's harmful. It's not TV, it's the content of what's on it that's harmful. it's not movies, it's the content of the movies that's harmful, it's not music, it's the content (lyrics) that's harmful.. etc... And now here we have social media, and the claim that it's different because of the content.

The content isn't the problem. (edit: that is subjective, as it's directly tied to what we as a society consider acceptable). The problem is we have devolved as a society, where we become lazy as parents, as a society, where we look for the easy way out (many laws, restrictions fall under the easy way out), and look to place blame on something other than who/what is actually responsible. Which has lowered our standards on what is considered acceptable or not. We as a society would rather restrict than parent, teach and educate. We are to the point that people put in more effort in looking for issues with nearly everything for the purpose of blaming.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Good, I hope it bears fruit.

 

[woolfe9998]

Are you sure? The same arguments have been made, and are continuely made about video games, TV, movies, music, etc., they are just no longer in the forfront. It's not video games, its the content that's harmful. It's not TV, it's the content of what's on it that's harmful. it's not movies, it's the content of the movies that's harmful, it's not music, it's the content (lyrics) that's harmful.. etc... And now here we have social media, and the claim that it's different because of the content.

The content isn't the problem. (edit: that is subjective, as it's directly tied to what we as a society consider acceptable). The problem is we have devolved as a society, where we become lazy as parents, as a society, where we look for the easy way out (many laws, restrictions fall under the easy way out), and look to place blame on something other than who/what is actually responsible. Which has lowered our standards on what is considered acceptable or not. We as a society would rather restrict than parent, teach and educate. We are to the point that people put in more effort in looking for issues with nearly everything for the purpose of blaming.

Not sure who you are disagreeing with here, as I already said this is on the parents.

It's also a wider problem than just kids. The problem is a lack of critical thinking. Including the fact that we don't teach it in our schools and we tend not to practice it as adults.

There is no way to keep people away from bad ideas and false beliefs, be it children or adults. Not in the long run. If so many of us are going to continue to be this suspectable to believing in nonsense, I'm afraid we're in big trouble.

 

[MrSquished]

Finally a somewhat decent move by Adams. In Europe they have regulations on advertising to minors. We need to get that shit happening here. Too often we are letting corporations with huge budgets using advertising and marketing to get in the kids heads via psychologically based tools, and turn them into consumer drones, or in this case, social media drones. Developing children's brains are especially vulnerable.

This shit needs to stop now.

 

[hal2kilo]

It's my GD right to be sales pitched on a constant basis. It's all about free capitalist speech, to sell, sell, sell. That's what America is all about. Look, 40% of our idiot brain washed population wants a grifting huckster for president again. It works, and we legally allow ourselves to be pelted with this endless capitalist free speech. We are doomed.