• venusaur@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    If you at all think that people can be addicted to social media, you could draw a correlation from this to porn addiction.

    I know a lot of you either don’t think porn can be addictive and/or don’t think it can have negative effects on society.

    Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.

    EDIT: I’m gonna have to do an experiment and see if I get more downvotes for saying negative things about porn or positive things about Israel. Unfortunately I think it’d be pretty close.

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      25 days ago

      You absolutly right, but here in the Mecca of internet freedom, we don’t likey.

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        25 days ago

        But we love our mods. What about freedom of speech online? People just too addicted to porn and can’t even muster an ounce of criticism or critical thinking.

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      26 days ago

      To be fair, potentially addictive or not, I wouldn’t support a ban on social media either. The practical requirements needed to effectively restrict access to information in the modern age (both porn and social media being examples of information) are such that I generally view the cure as worse than the disease, so to speak, and view the least bad option as being to just give up on legal restrictions and just deal with the consequences instead. Addiction is harmful, but most consumers of such information aren’t harmed by it, and restriction inherently requires monitoring and removing internet anonymity to a degree that I find unacceptable.

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        25 days ago

        Didn’t say anything about banning porn or social media. Just saying that they’re both addictive and have negative consequences on society. Yall can keep your porn. Relax.

    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
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      26 days ago

      So alcohol and tobacco should be entirely banned as well? We should start with these, they’re way worse