[almostdeadguy]

ITT are dozens of techno libertarian dolts making the same arguments they’ve made for the past two decades about why social media isn’t harmful.

See it’s the people, doing things they’ve always done, not the technology that supercharges those impulses via engagement addiction and power fantasies.

Resist the call to reign in this wildly dangerous technology that is making social media look like a lightweight in its speed to scaling distributed social harm. Some of us can still make a buck off it.

If this technology, on top of making a highly scalable way to scam, delude, cyber bully, and trap its users in psychosis also happens to cause the collapse of professional labor, I will shed no tears for the people naysaying the danger. I hope the AI data centers are burned to the ground, but I’m not holding my breath.