• gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    Unpopular opinion: it’s been extensively studied that addictive corporate social media like Instagram and TikTok cause developmental damage, depression, and can lead to suicide in a statistically significant proportion of young adolescents. It should be regulated just like we do with cigarettes.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s just that the R douchnozzles pushing it in most places also want to tack it on with secuality-related stuff, parent helicoptering and we’ll trodden and failed shit ideas of social control.

      Meanwhile not a single one of them will vote for internet privacy laws to slow the rape of Americans data on the daily.