This will lead to even lower birth rates in 'modern' societies, while those of 'traditional' subcultures will keep at their level. A problem that solves itself, ultimately, but not before it caused a lot of suffering in the 'modern', disappearing society.
See also: tradwife phenomena, immigrant population growth.
Obligatory mention of that one time Indiana tried to define pi as exactly 3 for all matters of engineering - which was only prevented by a maths professor who just so happened to be in the vicinity and held an in-promptu lecture on basic calculus.
Maybe a mere majority should not be enough to pass a law after all.
Fun fact: In 1800s England, there was a moral panic about (especially) young women *reading*. It was seen as a deliberate act of rotting their brains, similar to smoking opium.
Suicide has been the major cause of death for teenagers for a long time.
What is interesting is that the suicide rate dropped during the pandemic years - when many kids stayed at home, and had all access to social media, but none to
From the same report, it claims that teenage suicide rose most significantly with the African-american population. Maybe an after-effect of the BLM riots and the associated rhetoric?
[1] https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fmmwr%2Fvolum...
myogenetic (adj): originating in muscle.
People of all ages, genders, and hair colours have been shown disrespect long before social media was a thing, and parents often didn't bother getting involved. Whole cultures are extremely misogynistic, and are introducing this into western culture as we speak - no Tate needed.
Society changes all the time. Pressure always creates counter-pressure. The current pressure from especially young men is a direct result of decades of pro-women, girl-power identity politics that to many young boys felt like punishment for being born male. If you want to solve a wave in misogyny, control immigrant populations, especially from misogynic cultures, and stop making biological sex a discriminatory factor.
If you argue from a 'social media causes depression' standpoint, it is very relevant to be able to actually prove that.
We *know* the negative effects of sugar (though a child fed only veggies for his or her childhood will chose the cheapest, most inhumane nursing home for you that you can find).
We *guess* there is a problem with social media, and the usual pearl-clutchers keep hammering all that is wrong with the world on it, much like they did with comics, D&D, video-game induced violence and rock music before. That's what this whole thread is about.
Correlation, meet causation.
What is different between teenagers using social media and those who don't (I suppose other than the other group living in some Himalayan valley without Internet)? Do parents spend more time with less terminally online teens? Do they engage in high-engagement hobbies (like horseriding, or electronics) that are fulfilling, though maybe costly (which would make that approach less available to the majority)?
If you control for these things, I am fairly sure you will find that kids with a higher involvement of their families in their lives are more happy on average.
As long as you do not put two random teenagers in a concrete cell each, controlling for all outside parameters, and show me that the one without the cell phone and social media is happier than the one with those things after a week, I will remain sceptical.
You might want to differ. Installing software on foreign computers without consent is perfectly legal in lots of jurisdictions, in some western nations it is even tried by the state. Why should it be acceptable for the state to install trojans to monitor your net use (see: Bundestrojaner, EU in general), but despictable to kill a botnet with similar tactics?
Anti-Virii are no new invention - they were around in the 1990s.
A law that actively hinders human development and protects criminal activities is immoral.
Immoral laws should not be followed.
"At 6 minutes in, a small crowd has formed, perhaps 15 of us. His sravaka — his disciples — look nervously at us, absorbing the distractions, protecting him a bubble of calm. There is complete silence. Even my son is staring slackjawed, like he does in church during communion, not understanding the content of the ritual but understanding the tone and sacredness of the space."
Thomas Greene of The Register has a fairly comprehensive review of Vista and IE7 user security measures. The verdict is: better but not adequate, and mostly an attempt to shift blame onto the user when things go wrong. From the review: "[Vista is] a slightly more secure version than XP SP2. There are good features, and there are good ideas, but they've been implemented badly. The old problems never go away: too many networking services enabled by default; too many owners running their boxes as admins and downloading every bit of malware they can get their hands on."
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.
