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Earlier this week, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a useless man in a useless position wasted everyone’s time by proposing a warning for social media cautioning that it’s harmful for adolescents.
No kidding.
But that’s coming from the same administration that believes TikTok videos encouraging transgender mutilation is the right side of history.
Whatever putting a “warning label” on an app even means (probably a screen to click through), it’s a waste of everyone’s time. Social media is unhealthy for most people, but it’s particularly unhealthy for teenagers. But there are two levels of unhealthiness. One is the mechanical effect that comes from doomscrolling and chasing likes and the other is the cultural content. And of the two, it’s the latter that is the more destructive.
Social media just amplifies the worst of the culture. Amplification, particularly in algorithm form, is a major problem, but it’s the toxic culture it amplifies that is the real threat.
To increase views, add a “WARNING!!” label. Such will amplify the interest of many users.
I have no social media accounts at all, none. I dumped Facebook 14 years ago seeing it to be little more than a source of narcissistic supply for millions. Never had anything to do with Twitter, none of the rest ever appealed to me and could see no value in them for myself at all. I thought it best to just avoid them all, the times have shown me to be right.
I think this warning label stuff is just more nanny state nonsense. Just like warning labels on cigarettes.
You MIGHT be right about the warnings on cigarettes being useless but I think they should still be there.
Why? Should we put warning labels on everything that is unhealthy? Beer, fudge, fried chicken, and on and on. Where does it end?
This is a free country. We shouldn’t have the nanny state looking over us and monitoring what we consume.
People that don’t know that inhaling smoke is bad for you probably need a guardian.
“Social media is a toilet.” – Rush Limbaugh
And age restriction for smartphones would help with this.
I don’t think age restrictions for smartphones is the right way to go. A pocket PC with a light, camera, mic, and the other sensors that come with one is handy for a lot of things, and a savvy parent can monitor their children through their smartphone. I wouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, anything can be misused or abused.
I wouldn’t let the nanny state control phone usage and play parent for us. So we shouldn’t have age restrictions.
But I do wish smart phones didn’t exist as they turn kids and adults alike into zombies, or screen staring junkies.
I long for the good old days of the 1990’s!
I like the warning labels and misinformation tags. It let’s me know that the content is most likely true, deserves my attention and informs me of which truths the government is most discomfited.
I’m shocked. For the first time in the history of the United States, a Democrat said something right. Granted, they said it for the wrong reasons, but they got one.
Dems 1, Common Sense 500 Septaseptagintillion.