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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's not a moral panic this time though, it's a legitimate concern.

Nothing has ever produced these billions of sub-30-second, algorithmically curated dopamine blasts.

Video games were a moral panic because they "promoted violence" and TV was supposed to make you stupid, which, it kind of does depending on what you consume. They both required you to sit still and focus on something though.

There are kids who can't sit through a movie without pulling out their phone because they're just used to being onto the next thing in 10 seconds.

So you can bitch about it being a moral panic or whatever you want to do to make fun of people who think it's a concern, but it's very clear to me from seeing how damaging excessive screen time is on young kids personally that things like YouTube shorts and TikTok are actually super damaging in a number of different ways. They were right about phones, because they've facilitated the mass delivery of this content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

nah, it's a moral panic.

Is reels being castigated? Youtube shorts? They do the exact same dopamine microdosing and attention span buttfucking. The practises aren't being addressed, or their deleterious effects - in fact it would be incredibly easy to ban what tiktok does rather than the app itself, but they're not doing that. it's a moral panic drumbeat that conveniently opens the door to fuck other social media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm sure they thought it wasn't a moral panic last time too. You sound the same as the adults when i was a young person. Exactly the same. Everyone here does.

You need to ask questions of yourself, I mean, you can ignore the questions of yourself, but that is heading down the same road, but this time, it's resulting in actual censorship of the things young people use instead of just a panic.