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garethspriceyesterday at 6:47 PM1 replyview on HN

"While the social media revolution has come with extraordinary benefits..." curious what Khan would say those benefits are.

It's certainly something a lot of people find entertaining but I would not say there have been "extraordinary benefits" to society or individuals from the average UK adult spending 1h 37m a day[1] of their lives on social media platforms.

"While smoking cigarettes has come with extraordinary benefits, we've seen a surge in people misusing these products and getting sick due to a lack of guardrails, tobacco companies need to do much more to make their product healthy and discourage bad faith actors from developing cancer..."/s

[1] https://wearesocial.com/uk/blog/2025/02/digital-2025/


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DarkNova6yesterday at 10:49 PM

Maybe replace "benefits" with "profits"?