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The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction (www.politico.eu)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1521185

Archived version: https://archive.ph/6aqt8
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230816124146/https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-social-media-teens-smartphone-addiction/

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

With better and more interesting school activities and curriculum??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

well... no...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The web is toxic due to bots, seo and algorithms, not because of people.

Also, there are tons of thing afk that make you depressed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

people got hooked to emails back in the 90’s. internet addiction is real.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

The world: At war, on fire, collapsing before our eyes
The world's governments: Falling to fascism and right-wing insanity
People's rights: Slowly disappearing
Capitalism level: Late-stage
The future: Only going to get worse

But yeah, technology is why adolescents are unhappy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

the partial root to these problems is actually technology and social media.

people vote and have to protest, if they’re fed russian social media propaganda and they’re too numb to protest against industries emitting carbon into the atmosphere and governments too slow to react to climate change, you can see pretty quickly this becomes a huge problem.

right-wing insanity: social media polarization

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Only that it's not the governments falling to facism, but the voters. Manipulated by propaganda on a unheard-before level... via the web

It's not the rights getting somehow magically lost. It's a push by lobbyists wanting to have more control over their workers/clients/customers/whatever amd who pay millions on pushing false narratives and propaganda... via the web

Late-stage capitalism: Same, same...

But the web getting exploited to spread narratives and manipulating people on a scale never before possible is of course totally unrelated to the situation right now. 🤡

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Technology is why you know about all of that stuff happening. It's always been happening. The only difference is we were ignorant of it all in the past. So in a way, yes...technology is why adolescents are unhappy.