and that is the same country that wanted to ban social media for minors because social media was harming minors? huh, I do think something is indeed harming French minors, but I don’t think it’s social media!
The country didn’t want that. The president and his cronies do, as an excuse to amplify mass surveillance.
The same president we’re protesting against.
Corporate social media with algorithms designed to make addicts out of users and force propaganda down their throats is different than decentralized social media where people have control of what they consume while they are on it.
Ah yes, the “gotcha” everyone loves to trot out. Except Lemmy is quite obviously not what anyone is talking about when they talk about the issues of social media.
and that is the same country that wanted to ban social media for minors because social media was harming minors? huh, I do think something is indeed harming French minors, but I don’t think it’s social media!
The country didn’t want that. The president and his cronies do, as an excuse to amplify mass surveillance.
The same president we’re protesting against.
Yes. I agree. I used “country” as a metonym for the ones in charge of it.
Oh okay then, sorry.
Social media is definitely harming minors, just like it is harming everyone else.
… wrote someone on a social media site.
Corporate social media with algorithms designed to make addicts out of users and force propaganda down their throats is different than decentralized social media where people have control of what they consume while they are on it.
Ah yes, the “gotcha” everyone loves to trot out. Except Lemmy is quite obviously not what anyone is talking about when they talk about the issues of social media.
And yet, the French government did try to ban it for young people too.
Bring back social networks. No more algorithms. Only feed from people your personnaly add to your network, in the order they were posted.
Two things can harm minors at the same time.
“No Timmy, you were on esptein island so we’re sending you to Iran, you’re immune to anything bad happening to you ever”