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jps4851 t1_izjwqhp wrote

Reply to comment by rocsage_praisesun in Texas bill would ban social media for children under 18 by ANNIHILATOR284

What are your thoughts about it that make it “the issue?”

Just curious on your take here. Social media has many, many positive benefits when serving as a news type of outlet. Think of a wiki - a crowdsource of unbiased knowledge that’s not being funneled from just one individual. The same could be said about social media. It’s a collective “media” with tons of different perspectives of the same situation.

Aside from all the dancers, fitfluencers, and MLM baddies, social media can be a great thing.

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rocsage_praisesun t1_izjxyn2 wrote

>Aside from all the dancers, fitfluencers, and MLM baddies, social media can be a great thing.

guess who puts on the best shows to court these malleable minds, a nawledge dispenser flaunting lambo, or credible news reporters, if the latter even exists on instagram/twitter?

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jps4851 t1_izjyd3c wrote

That’s the thing. They aren’t getting news and knowledge from the people flaunting lambos. They are getting “news” from people recording things literally on the streets.

You never answered my question, either.

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rocsage_praisesun t1_izk0ir4 wrote

to answer your question, then, which I thought you answered yourself.

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social media UGC is largely unregulated, and similar to how traditional media's de-regulation caused the programming and public discourse to become increasingly radicalized over the years, is infested with substandard and often outright harmful content disseminated with malicious intent, including but not limited to the MLM you described.

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look, I'm no fan of the bible belt or its pron-tweet liking senator, but I highly doubt social media would be a sufficient or adequate remedy, if not another plague in and of itself.

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