Some argue bans and enforcement debates are a binary trap
3 Sep 20 10:12 AM · 3d ago · 3 comments · 1 source · development 3 of 5
A commenter suggests the discourse falls into all-or-nothing thinking, where imperfect prevention is treated as equivalent to no prevention at all.
“Maybe it’s because tech people are prone to binary thinking, but there seems to be the idea that if you can’t prevent a bad thing entirely, then you shouldn’t try to prevent it at all.”
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"In scary headlines like these, technology is the subject, and teens are passive victims." -- I am sorry, but how is this not true, when companies like Meta are in full control of their algorithms, tuning them to maximum addiction.One can indeed argue what is the best way to deal with the problem of kids and social media, but I think the article…
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> Teens will find creative ways to access these or even more unregulated spacesThe article is missing the point entirely. The conversation is not about “regulated spaces”, but removing them from spaces created entirely to drive advertisement, mindless engagement and consumption. If they find other spaces to join without that, perfect - it worked!
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For the record, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has fostered world-class research and development in fields such as A.I., X Windows (Athena Widgets, Kerberos security (adopted by Microsoft in SMB and Windows Server, etc. GNU (Richard M. Stallman))) Emacs and elisp, as well as glibc and gcc compiler tool suite.
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Maybe it’s because tech people are prone to binary thinking, but there seems to be the idea that if you can’t prevent a bad thing entirely, then you shouldn’t try to prevent it at all. Or maybe the other way around: if you can’t achieve a good thing completely, then why even bother trying?
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Yup. All this talk of personal responsibility in these types of situations is nothing but a perfidious form of victim blaming."The crack addict should've known better, it's not the dealer's fault they came back for more!"
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Exactly, it's like talking about the symptoms and missing the point of the diagnostic.
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