Social media should be banned like pesticides, fossil fuels and other things harmful to the society.
There is enormous value in letting humans communicate freely through the internet and any harm which comes from the misuse needs to be very carefully weighed against the benefits.
By the way, fossile fuels are partly responsible for the greatest uplift in human quality of life. Pesticides are essential in creating a sustainable food output.
> any harm which comes from the misuse needs to be very carefully weighed against the benefits.
Also, misuse can be addressed in different ways, blanket bans and surveillance-enabling authentication are misuse themselves.
Yeah, and they are not sentient beings we owe something in return to.
When they were useful we used them. Now that they’re more harmful than useful we stop using them.
I don’t understand the moralizing around that.
Both of them are regulated but it is understood that they are critical to society without which a lot of stuff won’t happen
Or centuries in between where folks used to go village to village telling tales for a few coins.
Meaning there was always something kind of widespread, even if it wasn't at the scale of computer networks connected world wild.