I’m glad that the government is trying to address the issue of social media, but obviously adding warnings isn’t going to do anything.
I think the only way to actually solve the problem would be to regulate the recommendation algorithms to make them less addictive and less harmful.
It seems like an awareness campaign is a good start. People on this platform are generally very social media savvy, but the harms of social media are far from common knowledge.
One of the most important things that Lemmy has done is to introduce a transparent ranking algorithm. It turns out that people do like algorithms in our social media, as long as we can see and control them. There’s nothing sinister about an algorithm when you can easily see what is getting boosted and why (and switch it off at will)
Other federated media are developing personalized algorithms that will be well suited to other platforms.
I like this idea. Unhealthy, addictive and combative environments should be labeled.
So, #MAGA should be labelled as such?
Only issue it’s those attracted to Maga would love being labeled that
Convicted felons and adjudicated rapists wholeheartedly agree!
Yeah. They can still buy all their ironically unpatriotic clothing, but the tag has to have a little warning about the wearer’s instability
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People who think this doesn’t or won’t do anything are completely overlooking the advertising revenue impact. If social media must carry these warning labels, that devalues the ad space they sell. Does coca cola, Ford, etc. really want their ads to show up on content with these warning labels? Will they be getting a discount on ad space because it’s better to deliver ads to users on platforms that don’t have this warning?
America is so contrarian they might up their social media intake even more tbh
In Canada the cigarette warning labels had horrible pictures of the damage smoking can cause, and all my friends that smoked liked collecting them like baseball cards.
They were already addicted. The warnings are not made for them.
actually sounds like a fun hobby
I can’t tell if this dude is 23 years old or 53 years old.
Young face old hair
Dall-E lookin’ ass
(Platform) may cause birth defects, lung cancer, death
How Money Changes the Way You Think and Feel
Money is clearly harmful. Let’s put a warning label on every bill and coin: “Addictive”?
I started smoking as a teenager after those warnings were put on cigarettes. I did it despite knowing it was addictive and it was bad for me.
Kids don’t give a shit. They think they’re immortal.
But sure, waste your time.
Those warnings had a statistically significant effect on smoking rates. Just because it doesn’t work on everyone doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.
Please let me see these statistics.
https://academic.oup.com/her/article/34/3/321/5424102
In short, yes, but only before addiction.
Thank you.
Can’t wait to have to sign in with your driver’s license to get on Facebook think of the children.
Already true for porn sites in some states. The inevitable data leak will not be pretty.
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Same. How many teens currently vape? Wait, did they not know these substances are harmful?
I don’t particularly feel like there needs to be a government campaign to get rid of Lemmy/kbin/mbin, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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Yes.
Why did you not understand it then?
I did. What are you taking issue with?
a government campaign* to get rid of*
They didn’t get rid of cigarettes, they just put warning labels on them. They want to do the same thing to social media.
The point of cigarette warning labels was to kill off tobacco use. They didn’t ban cigarettes either, but that’s got nothing to do with the aim of the campaign.
So would other warning labels required by law also be considered a campaign against said products?
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