«This Advisory describes the current evidence on the impacts of social media on the mental health of children and adolescents. It states that we cannot conclude social media is sufficiently safe for children and adolescents and outlines immediate steps we can take to mitigate the risk of harm to children and adolescents.»
#mentalhealth #childhood #socialmedia
https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html
“Replace “social media” with “dungeons & dragons” or “rock & roll music” and that language sounds very familiar.”
I remember back in the 60s and 70s everyone (i.e. radio and theaters) was complaining how TV was dangerous. They’d say that there was radiation from the CRT tubes, or that it wasn’t healthy to have kids sit in front of the TV, etc.
That continued until the government had firm control over TV content (by artificially limiting the number of TV channels and arbitrarily enforcing obscenity laws on TV content).
Now the internet has come along and this time it’s TV networks who are promoting this nonsense against the new competition. The internet is the most free and democratic medium we’ve ever had and the plutocrats are desperately trying to find a way to control content on the internet.
Also, the surgeon general has some nerve recommending anything at all, after the US public health apparatus just killed a million Americans.
Why don’t they say anything about that?
@Gert Replace “social media” with “dungeons & dragons” or “rock & roll music” and that language sounds very familiar.