I used to use imgur daily, even after the god-awful update to their app and website which plastered ads everywhere. I never updated the app and constantly saw people complaining about the new app or the website. When they later made that old version impossible to use, I stopped going to the site. Not out of some protest or whatever but it was just so fucking awful to try to use.

“Land of the free”

Thank you for expanding more on this, it’s gone a long way to helping me understand better.

I still believe that social media, as it currently exists, is something which is harmful to children for reasons I laid out previously but connection and support are important.

The perfect solution would be to disallow any kind of traditional social media outside of break times whilst bolstering better spaces for support and friendship both online and offline; the first part of that is definitely a symptom of the second but I’m not sure how to best solve that outside of direct community support and advocacy for such spaces.

Not really what we were discussing and trivialises the harm done by systems of retributive punishment but okay.

The thread lays out my opinion retty clearly; characterising a discussion as an obsession is being deliberately disingenuous.

It’s also very important to remember that AAA doesn’t refer to quality; it’s terminology borrowed from financial products to indicate how safe an investment it is to generate a return.

“Capitalism causing problem which is unprofitable to solve or directly serves capital? It’s time for socialism.”

Surely learning can be facilitated with devices provided by the school if such devices are necessary? There are dumb phones with cameras that can be used to document any evidence of abuse.

I’m showing my age here - I was alone in school. I am neurodivergent and part of the LGBTQ+ community, both things that were not well understood or accepted when I was in school. The only brief pieces of support and connection I had was online needed to be on a PC as smartphones were simply not a thing.

Are you saying that children today must have instant and immediate access to friends and like minded people online during school hours? The children I know (i.e. children within my family and the children of friends) don’t have smartphones at school and are able to wait until break times or after school to socialise but they’re also not American; is this a uniquely American issue?

A future is coming where it can just be your job to let an LLM observe your life 24/7… And that might be the only job available.

Getting paid to play games, jack off, and shitpost but at what cost…

I could be incredibly wrong with this however it’s my understanding that fascists equally to being shot whether it be by a 9mm or an assault rifle. Additionally, there are still mass shootings where far too many innocent people are dying with a notable lack of fascists being shot.

I don’t believe the justification of having AR-15s to shoot fascists is the worth the trade-off of dead children.

Not really bothered by downvotes when, like you say, the data is pretty clear on the matter.

Sure, but the phones are the tools which are facilitating the harm and they’re not necessary for a child to have in school. I’d even go far enough to say that no minor should have full unfettered access to a smartphone or the internet but this requires a level of involvement from parents.

As if anyone is actually believing she’s suddenly developed empathy.

Smartphones are the medium through which children are most oppressed through social media apps, poisoning their brains. Instagram and Facebook deliberately targeted young girls to make them feel like shit about their bodies, and engagement based algorithms (particularly YouTube) pumped harmful fascist ideas to young boys.

From the outside looking in, it’s funny in a sick and twisted way that legislators are looking to ban phones from schools because they’re dangerous but do nothing about guns.

A specifically negative and demeaning connotation which isn’t necessary.

Guessing there’s also been a sudden rise in people justifying the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry recently?

I wonder how many people could have their medical debt erased with $1million per day…

Where do I even start with this?