alt Hacker NewsSocial media is like tobacco. We went after tobacco for targeting kids, we should do the same to social media. Highly engineered addictive content is not unlike what was done to cigarettes.
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Gormo • yesterday at 7:07 PM
No, it isn't. Tobacco is a physical substance that alters users' biochemistry and creates a physical dependence. Social media is information conveyed via a computing device. You can criticize social media for what it is in its own right, without having to engage in these kinds of disingenuous equivocations.
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Yes, go after Facebook and their kind only, avoid collateral damage to the remaining regular old internet.