Post #1081434

2026-04-03 13:00 UTC

I mean, social media should be banned for everyone, not just teenagers. It’s a great evil in the world today, and in a functional democracy that wasn’t braindead, we should ban them outright for the mass harm and destruction they have caused. That being said, I fully understand that the motivations of countries for these kinds of bans have little to do with the harm of social media and are much more about surveillance.

Replies (4)

@arcine@jlai.lu 2026-04-04 10:39

Do you realize you posted this very comment on social media ? Do you think they should ban the fediverse as well !?

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@Link@rentadrunk.org 2026-04-03 19:55

Which type of social media are we referring to here? Doesn’t Lemmy count as social media?

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@yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2026-04-03 17:36

It's so bonkers how most of the older generations agree that being on the internet cannot make you social, yet became the default method to communicate. Ban it for everyone? I mean, lemmy itself is a social network platform, if you want it to be. But I know what you mean: social media being the most used platforms, Google, Facebook, Tik-Tok, etc . . . And for that, yeah, I do agree with a full ban. We need a cultural reset, where we aren't being fed sensationalist bullshit and pure brainrot as entertainment via an algorithm trained on our insufficient capacity to regulate our attention.

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@Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 22:51

I agree, social media is harmful for all, no matter the age. We shouldn't be destined to further segment and disfranchise individuals solely because they're "inferior", based on age or any other discriminatory factor - the thing is, who is the victim and who is the abuser in this case? Because the situation at hand seems like the victims are getting punished for the wrongdoings of the abuser. This is where we are at, the corporations flipped the script, and we as a society gulped it all down, tightening the handcuffs around the wrong hands. But besides the point, relating to the logic within your statement, who are you trying to ban here? Because you mention both "everyone" and "them" - which consequently makes it ambiguous, which introduces double meaning.

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