Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling
gumdrop@lemmy.world 14 hours agoWhy’s that? I’m curious to hear the counter-arguments
Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling
gumdrop@lemmy.world 14 hours agoWhy’s that? I’m curious to hear the counter-arguments
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Nobody gives a shit about kids, this has nothing to do with kids.
It is a distraction to point to infinite scrolling, and it makes people dumber when they nod their heads and say “yeah that is the problem!” because the oxygen goes out of the room to have a serious conversation about collective ownership of digital platforms, the violence inherent to rightwing ideology and the extreme damage wealth inequality and the globally collapsing social safety net.
These laws WILL be used by wealthy corporations to shut out smaller competition/social networks.
Infinite scroll? Really? We are gonna compare swiping over and over again to physically giving someone drugs? I am not debating the reality of addiction, I am saying that there really isn’t any actually solid evidence we are making rational scientific decisions here. Whenever we talk about addiction people turn their brain off and everything becomes a slippery slope, it is a logic that only ever works when applied in a monomanical way that excludes the obvious fallacies that comes from expanding the logic outside of the moral panic zone… but a moral panic demands you be shamed if you aren’t hyperfocusing on it and thus it can propagate even though the broader implications are destructive and regressive.
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