Earlier this week, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a useless man in a useless position wasted everyone’s time by proposing a warning for social media cautioning that it’s harmful for adolescents.
No kidding.
But that’s coming from the same administration that believes TikTok videos encouraging transgender mutilation is the right side of history.
Whatever putting a “warning label” on an app even means (probably a screen to click through), it’s a waste of everyone’s time. Social media is unhealthy for most people, but it’s particularly unhealthy for teenagers. But there are two levels of unhealthiness. One is the mechanical effect that comes from doomscrolling and chasing likes and the other is the cultural content. And of the two, it’s the latter that is the more destructive.Social media just amplifies the worst of the culture. Amplification, particularly in algorithm form, is a major problem, but it’s the toxic culture it amplifies that is the […]
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