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Not drinking or gambling works so well for alcoholics and gamblers. Who needs rehab anyway?
And yet we're talking about a case against social media companies and not a case against casinos or distillers.
The elephant in the room of all of this is that TikTok was the social media platform that allowed for the genocide taking place in Palestine by Israel to reach audiences directly. All other major social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) heavily censored this information or outright deplatformed and canceled accounts of prominent dissemination of information about the war crimes being committed by Isr…
I'm fully against censorship, and I don't want it covered up, but at some point profiting off of the suffering of others and distracting people with holocaust porn or influencer virtue signaling is self defeating. What did all of that social audience gain? Clicks, entertainment, dollars, while children died? That's disgusting. And in the end is there anything of value left, any documentation of what happened, or how…
If you think this is meaningless, take a look at countries like Saudi Arabia pouring tens of billions of dollars in trying to achieve the exact opposite - cultivating a positive opinion/view of the country among those in the West. They wouldn't be doing this if it didn't matter. The US hegemony has thrived largely on this kind of soft power. If the whole world (instead of just half the world) had already hated the US decades ago, it would've become nowhere near as powerful.
I 100% agree with the premise that TikTok is addictive and even dangerous to consume in large amounts (that's why I don't consume it at all). But I feel the exact same about cheeseburgers. Should I be able to sue McDonalds if I let my kid eat 100 of them in one sitting? Again, I get the danger here, and I don't like TikTok as a whole. I just don't really know where the line is between something that the parent is all…
> Should I be able to sue McDonalds if I let my kid eat 100 of them in one sitting? Should you be able to sue McDonald's if they delivered you unlimited cheeseburgers for free, said nothing of the dangers, and even encouraged you to eat more, and then you became obese/sick from it? Sure, it may have been your choice to accept/eat them, but you did so uninformed, and based on false premises, and the risks were hidden…
Fundamentally, I think having a source of "free dopamine" on tap is not going to do any good. If I can get distracted from my real world tasks anytime, anywhere, the immediate incentives to work on real things disappear. Effectively, one can get stuck in a local minimum. I don't know how to solve it, but personally I've chosen to block as many feeds/algorithms as I can, so I have to make a conscious decision to searc…
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This is what drugs and alcohol can become if not used in moderation. Once we have the AI holodeck (the full-sensory interactive, possibly multiplayer one), can you only imagine? TikTok is only the punch card phase of this. TikTok may as well be black and white television. Just imagine what we might have in twenty years. Maybe this is why we haven't found alien life. If their biologies have attention mechanisms like o…
Agreed, AI/VR definitely offers nightmarish opportunities. At least drugs/alcohol are self limiting: you have to meet your dealer, go to a store, eventually run out of money... TikTok/Reels/Shorts are free, infinite, and in your pocket on a device you're now forced to use in daily life (bank/2fa/messaging apps).
Restaurants with only QR code menus.
"Let me scan your LinkedIn app."
Verify your government ID on our app.
"Zelle me."
"Scan this code to pay."
My favorite: "Scan this code for parking or you will be towed. Also, if you leave without paying, we'll tow you next time you enter any of our properties in any state because we scanned your license plate." There's no other way to pay.
Apartment / condo door keys and entry systems.
My battery is always at 10%. I don't know how y'all do it.
This is also one of the many reasons why I think it's criminal that two private businesses are allowed to own this modern life necessity so completely.
I 100% agree with the premise that TikTok is addictive and even dangerous to consume in large amounts (that's why I don't consume it at all). But I feel the exact same about cheeseburgers. Should I be able to sue McDonalds if I let my kid eat 100 of them in one sitting? Again, I get the danger here, and I don't like TikTok as a whole. I just don't really know where the line is between something that the parent is all…
The elephant in the room of all of this is that TikTok was the social media platform that allowed for the genocide taking place in Palestine by Israel to reach audiences directly. All other major social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) heavily censored this information or outright deplatformed and canceled accounts of prominent dissemination of information about the war crimes being committed by Isr…
Fundamentally, I think having a source of "free dopamine" on tap is not going to do any good. If I can get distracted from my real world tasks anytime, anywhere, the immediate incentives to work on real things disappear. Effectively, one can get stuck in a local minimum. I don't know how to solve it, but personally I've chosen to block as many feeds/algorithms as I can, so I have to make a conscious decision to searc…
But if things interest you, does that not also provide dopamine? If the interesting things are easily available, are they "free" and addictive and bad? If they're good because they're interesting, is TikTok not interesting to those who like it? If you had a pinball machine and it distracted you, would that be bad, or a hobby? Is TikTok more compelling than pinball because of the algorithm? Is the algorithm not merely…
Apply the argument to abusing drugs now, and see how this argument throws all nuance out the window.
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> Should I be able to sue McDonalds if I let my kid eat 100 of them in one sitting? If McDonald’s is handing them out for free at the playground, yes.
I hate that this needs to be said, but giving kids free food is not illegal.
It’s not. But if you’re giving a kid “100” burgers “in one sitting” without the parent’s explicit sign-off, you are probably liable for damages.
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I hate that this needs to be said, but giving kids free food is not illegal.
If you believe that, go set up a "Free Candy!" stand at a local playground and see how long before the police show up.
This is a sign of a broken community. Handing out candy is absolutely fine as long as the kids are old enough to understand their own allergies and limits.