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@zleap i don't think the state has any say in this but i wouldn't let my kids on any social media. not big tech, not fedi. i wouldn't let my kids use the net unsupervised. this isn't the 90s net or even 2000s net anymore, this is a different beast. maybe plain text only is ok.

we don't have algorithms but this place is chock full of true psychos and you can't unsee things.

@zleap like i wrote, i don't think the state should have (or realistically has) any say in this.

what i think would help is:

foremost, schools need to teach good individualism, critical thinking and bodily autonomy. freedom is another word for responsibility after all. teach and give incentives for taking up responsibility for oneself, fellow humans and the environment.

the rest of society also needs to be shifted into this direction again. the west is in trouble because we largely have done away with the thing that made it resilient: individual responsibility and free expression. there always were people "abusing" it. culture, economy, and society thrived when it wasn't fought against using law and cancelling, but by coming up with something better.

which usually is pretty easy - tell people how it is and don't try to play silly games with them.

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