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Ah I see it's time for our weekly "You're miserable because of group-X" rage bait stupid fucking headlines.
I am far more concerned about our adults' screen time, the people who are supposed to be running our goddamn fucking country are spending all their time scrolling and tweeting for attention and posting rage-bait and getting in trouble for irresponsible internet usage.
At least the kids growing up on the internet right now will have some kind of perspective and understanding how the shit works.
I mean, we still need to do something about algorithmic amplification of our worst feelings and impulses driving waves of insecure people into the arms of grifters and crumbling society broadly, but I want to BAN ADULTS FROM THE INTERNET FIRST.
the ones running the countries are still boomers, and some silent generaiton, plus older gen-xers.
I don't think this is necessarily the case. If stuff is too abstracted away for people to grasp, they can use it, but don't really understand it. Like reports of people saying that college kids cannot interact with things like folders. Some of them are so digitally native, that they really lost the understanding of it.
I think it's both. It's bad for our future for kids to grow up with extreme body positivity issues and extreme social pressure that never lets up 24/7. It's bad for our future for kids to see the President tweeting racist videos and violent images. It's also bad for our present when our President does that.
I'm okay with banning the internet entirely. You need a license and proof that you're using it for business, and make keyboards illegal.
I think you'll probably find yourself mostly alone with that opinion.