Yeah, this is definitely a complicated issue with capitalists and pedophiles to worry about, but at the end of the day I think kids are ultimately safer and more able to intellectually develop when they have some degree of free speech and free association rights, and that's exactly what use of the Internet and social media in particular is
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And at the same time people were saying that radio or television would destroy kid's brains because they didn't want rock n roll music and racially integrated TV shows getting to them. Lots of mistakes from the past to try to avoid repeating.
Social media in general isn't the problem, for profit social media with manipulative concealed algorithms is
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Unfortunately I think we need to stop using that service (arc)
In the course of discussing whether Archive .today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive .today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.
They've stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money
Exactly, and the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was pro microtransactions really tells you the kind of scum we're dealing with here
I think we know how an administration that employs Kristi Noem feels about dogs
Wrong pronoun if you meant the incumbent
Fusion kitchens are the best and maybe the only good thing to come out of colonialism
Well, there's also a pretty good music that jazz doesn't happen the way it did without putting European instruments in the hands of formerly enslaved Africans. Would be a lot cooler world if we could figure out how to evolve our art and culture without crimes against humanity, tho.
How do you get the energy drink and nutrition supplements to stay in the taco
Do you honestly believe we would be here right now if we hadn't let the Biden administration and moderate Dems bungle this issue? The only thing proposing that noxious piece of trash legislation did was allow the fascists to say "see? even the libs know migrants are a problem."
This lesser evil canard completely misunderstands politics and racism, it doesn't work like an inoculation where doing a little racism keeps us from going full racist down the road, it works like heavy metal poisoning where the shit just builds up in our systems.
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