What the UK's Social Media Ban is REALLY About
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Brief Summary
Social media harms society; censorship targets dissenting opinions under the guise of safety.
Key points
- The Dangers of Social Media. Social media is described as brain rot, potentially worse than cigarettes.
- Censorship Explained. Censorship is not about harmful content, but about controlling dissenting opinions.
Transcript
I think we all agree social media is bad for the kids and for the adults. Too much of that stuff is very bad. It's brain rot for real and it's going to be worse than cigarettes. It's all the thing. But the real point of banning under 16 is so that you can force adults to identify themselves and deanonymize themselves so you can set up a fullscale censorship regime which they're sort of contemplating in the UK. And what censorship is really about is not about harmful content. It's about content that the people in power don't want you to see that disagrees with them. If it agreed with them, it's not harmful. It's the stuff that doesn't agree with them.
And so what they're doing is they're criminalizing disagreeing with them. And so there's a derivative of this agebased stuff, >> age gating, >> which is really about the adults, not the
