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Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media | Common Dreams
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Like cigarettes, online platforms denounced as products "whose business model depends on addicting kids."
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    38•1 year ago

    “Childrens advocates “ have been backing the most egregiously unconstitutional, paternalistic, data broker friendly, moral panic, privacy dystopia bullshit bills around the country. “Childs advocates” are why we have anti pornography pearl clutching panopticon laws that require you to scan a government ID to jerk off. Fuck off with that.

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      8•1 year ago

      This is a health issue, not a morality issue.

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        No, this is old as dirt shits upset that kids exist issue. Sorry Grandpa I won’t turn the music down. Now go fuck off to Florida and play bingo until you die

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        There’s no actual science about social media causing health problems like cigarettes.

        It’s a politician and state control issue.

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          https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/teen-social-media-use

          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7785056/

          This Harvard one is over 7 years old.

          https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/17/12/social-media-and-teen-anxiety

          I think you have a critical thinking issue.

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          6•1 year ago

          It’s literally cited on the HHS page about it: https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html

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      I agree with all of this.

      But this is none of that. This is informing people that the evidence says that excessive social media use does harm, because most people genuinely don’t understand the risks.

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      s/country/world/: FTFY

      “Think of the children” is somehow the gotcha for so many of the hard-of-thinking amongst us.

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