• ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      They said the same thing about video games, TV, heavy metal, comic books and rock music. Crazy people exist, crazy people have always existed, and crazy people will always exist. Society has always been able to cope.

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        8 months ago

        Sure, but none of those things have ever been demonstrated to actually exasperate mental health issues.

        Can we really say the same thing about the internet when we can see how quickly YouTube radicalized people? When we see the consequences of covid conspiracies and disinformation?

        We’ll cope, but the internet is a new kind of beast that we’re continually coping without a solid plan.