Nowhere Girl

I'm skeptical of "social media algorithms are designed to be addictive to minors" because clearly these people have never seen, e.g., the way old white people are hooked on Fox News and shit. Never mind that these adults have made sure there's nowhere else for young people to socialize, especially in groups.

Lately it's started edging toward "MAHA" wellness bullshit and Democrats' queerphobic and puritanical obsession with censoring and destroying the Internet "for the kids."

Feb 10 at 1:01amMoshidon
Show threadNowhere GirlFeb 10

"They're on their phones all the time!"

Bitch, so are you. Shut the fuck up.

Show threadNowhere GirlFeb 10
Stop letting pedophile billionaires own social media and everything else, tax them out of existence, and give us proper privacy protections.
Show threadNowhere GirlFeb 10
It's just really rich coming from people who sat in front of the TV all day deep frying their brains in that bullshit instead.
Show thread2somethingFeb 10
@gwynnion My conspiracy theory is that a lot of the push behind banning the internet is from the TV networks and newspaper publishers who hate not having a monopoly on mass communication. I notice no policymakers are proposing "age verification" to read the NYT or watch Fox News and it makes me suspicious.
Show threadπŸ’€ 𝓕airchild πŸ’€Feb 10
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Show threadLightfighterFeb 10

@gwynnion On the plus side, algorithms have been used for evil a lot. So if this leads to more non-algorithmic social media, that wouldn't be a bad thing.

Whenever I hear, "save the children", I assume bad motives.

Show threadNowhere GirlFeb 10
@Lightfighter Yeah. It's not that I love Facebook or anything -- and the middle aged people addicted to Facebook are a bigger problem by far in my opinion -- but a lot of terrible things are being done in the name of "the children" and it makes me automatically suspicious.
Show threadChancerubbageFeb 10

@gwynnion @angry_drunk

We used to have hang outs. Sometimes they included bars.

Restaurants don’t want people hanging around any more, β€˜Eat and go home!’ Not even congregating in parking lots is allowed.

What do kids do these days? Play board games.