Teenagers in the industrial city of Newcastle, north of Sydney, speak out against the Labor government’s legislation to bar them from accessing social media platforms.
the real purpose of the ban is to curb the growing political awareness of young people
Hot take. Maybe people shouldn’t be getting their political awareness from algorithmic sites. For every teen who learns Gaza etc there’s 10 that learn about the Manosphere and how bad vaccines are.
That’s sort of the problem with… reality, man. Both you and this kid are right, life isn’t black and white and there are a lot moving parts.
You’re 100% right that nobody should be getting political information from social media. This kid stating that is showing his age. Social media is a cess pool to become politically informed.
But he’s also right that this sort of thing can be a slippery slope.
Lemmy algorithm is based as hell though since purely shows you what is popular since it is not from a profit-driven source. Big tech closed source algorithms are designed from profit incentives because of capitalism. When people are talking about “The algorithm”, they usually mean the latter. There’s nothing wrong with getting your news from Lemmy.
Hot take. Maybe people shouldn’t be getting their political awareness from algorithmic sites. For every teen who learns Gaza etc there’s 10 that learn about the Manosphere and how bad vaccines are.
That’s sort of the problem with… reality, man. Both you and this kid are right, life isn’t black and white and there are a lot moving parts.
You’re 100% right that nobody should be getting political information from social media. This kid stating that is showing his age. Social media is a cess pool to become politically informed.
But he’s also right that this sort of thing can be a slippery slope.
Are you aware that you are currently commenting on a news post on an algorithmic social media site?
Lemmy algorithm is based as hell though since purely shows you what is popular since it is not from a profit-driven source. Big tech closed source algorithms are designed from profit incentives because of capitalism. When people are talking about “The algorithm”, they usually mean the latter. There’s nothing wrong with getting your news from Lemmy.