脆弱なエビデンスで加速する「エセ科学的な」若者のソーシャルメディア禁止法

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://p2ptk.org/freedom-of-speech/5624

@briankrebs

The entire #Republican #MoralPanic about #86 was (is) just one more example of how the Republicans speak in tongues -- to themselves

The #GOP uses the English language but it's all encoded to have a separate meaning in the #MAGA private universe

Of course the national #NewsMedia plays along and acts as willing dupes to it all, but its all just #4Chan /Pol #shitposting

#DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP

Again, to involve the government in culture wars is gratuitous when we consider that it is supposed to settle disputes, not pick winners and losers. The free speech-restricting FCC's attempted power grab regulating gender content surely looks like the agency playing the parent. https://reason.com/2026/05/31/the-fcc-wants-warning-labels-for-shows-with-transgender-content/
#FCC #censorship #cultureWars #FirstAmendment #freeSpeech #LGBTQ #moralPanic #nannyState #trans
The FCC wants warning labels for shows with 'transgender' content

But free speech advocates are pushing back.

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Where there is government, there is the potential for corruption. If we all just axe the FCC (which exists primarily to restrict free speech), then maybe the state will have fewer toys to break. Besides, you wouldn't want a neo-Stalinist to regulate away Christian (and pretty much every other) content, would you? https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/29/trump-fcc-proposes-vile-new-trans-panic-tv-warnings/
#FCC #AbolishTheFCC #BrendanCarr #bureaucracy #censorship #corruption #FirstAmendment #freeSpeech #moralPanic #trans #TVWarnings
Trump FCC Proposes Vile New Trans Panic TV Warnings

Last month the FCC quietly issued a public notice saying the Brendan Carr run agency was demanding that the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) create new TV ratings to alert viewers to “transgen…

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"Social media as bad for young people as smoking, top doctors say"

Seriously? Sure, social media harms some young people, but smoking kills about half of all smokers.

Are we really supposed to believe that social media kills about half of all young people who use it???

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7r9gqp6jo

#MoralPanic #Perspective #SocialMedia #Smoking

Streeting backs under-16s social media ban as government consultation concludes

The former health secretary accused regulators and politicians of being "asleep at the wheel" on the issue.

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Policy work beyond technological moral panic

Reflections on tech and social policy design, critiquing moral panic, and examining technosolutionism, inequality, disability approaches.

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Moral Panic - Reverend Elvis and the Undead Syncopators

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AI Fabricated Quotes In A Book About AI Undermining Truth. The Author Says This Proves His Point.

Last week I read this excerpt of Steven Rosenbaum’s new book in Wired. His book is titled “The Future of Truth” and the Wired article has the attention grabbing headline: “G…

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