I guess you are not a parent.

Kids aren't born responsible, they have to learn that. When they do they become adults hopefully.

Why do you defend Social Media, what do you think your are losing?

Get some sleep. Your wife might thank you for not being so grumpy and paying her a bit more attention than wasting your time on toys.

X4 looks up my street, BG3 first ;)

Good on you mate. You are a strong individual.

Love you tried to help through the school. And you did this being blind and in pain. They grow them tough round your way.

There's a wall of helplessness and complexity for a typical parent to scale with this issue and I guess that leads to apathy. For me that brings into focus the role of state, who we pay tax to protect us as a group and our individual freedom. The only precedent or parallel I can present is a war or a public health crisis. In that situation there is a limit to what an individual can achieve and that's where the state should step in to educate us or with legislation or they fail at their duty. If the group fails the individual fails. They are dependent on each other and a threat to each other.

We should always struggle to balance the interest of the individual and the group. We know addiction is a thing and we are mostly ignorant of it. My interest is why you defend addictive business models. Perhaps this is wrapped up in a belief of unlimited personal freedom, anarchy perhaps. Anarchy is not a good place to live in, if social media has taught us anything it's shown us anarchy. The anarchists believe a benevolent human nature will emerge, social media shows us it doesn't consistently. It got eclipsed by our fear, prejudice, greed and subsequent aggression that comes out of our instinct for survival.

Cultures set rules and boundaries. Humans invent out of necessity and invented culture to keeps us alive, stops us killing each other and helps us work together. We are waking up to that now in respect of Social Media and we're evolving our cultures to adapt to a new threat.

Your views on addiction are a bit basic, I suggest you read Gabor Mate, Realms of the hungry ghosts, and educate yourself on the role of trauma and addiction. People don't have a choice about trauma, it's imposed on them. Poor dopamine regulation , leading to addiction can be induced by trauma or a consequence of other conditions such as ADHD. Sorry, addiction's not that simple.

You are right, once we recognise we have addiction it's our choice to manage it. Society tries to help create environments like rehab programs to help. There is no equivalent for Social Media addiction, it is actively encouraged. It's equivalent to asking an alcoholic to rehab in a bar.

"A product should be legally addictive; otherwise you'd never use it."

You just legitimised fentanyl with that view. And every prescription opiates and painkillers 10,000's are addicted to. There's already legal precedent that disagrees with you.

I like how you have taken responsibility to manage the tech, I have really tried, but my kids are smart they know how to work around my gates, which I admire in a way. Such is the power of addiction.

I'd encourage you to share in detail how you secured your home with other parents because they are not as technically savvy as you. Perhaps there is even a product in there you could market.

The community building premise of Social Media could be a powerful force for good, like it is here mostly. But in its current form it's been corrupted by bad actors. I'd like to see it provided as a utility where the community owns their content, the revenue from ads and the fences they put around it. I don't know how to monetise that, so I guess its an opensource solution, like Linux, built by volunteers, the best and ethically driven.

Agree entirely. Their business model is based on capturing and keeping attention to pump ads. Their financial success and influence is evidence of how good they are at that. It is their clear intention.

Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO summed up how to win at the attention economy Social Media is in.

“You know, think about it, when you watch a show from Netflix and you get addicted to it, you stay up late at night. We’re competing with sleep, on the margin. And so, it’s a very large pool of time.”

Netflix's biggest competitor? Sleep

Sleep deprivation" is used as torture and kills people eventually. Exploiting human weaknesses for addiction, leading them into harm for money is just evil.

Kids fall asleep to tiktok, youtube, snapchat being advertised to until they pass out. That's sick. Blame the parents all you like, until you are one and realise what you are up against, you don't know how to solve this.

The government's right to protect the people, parents included, this ruling is long overdue. Bring that toxic industry down, replace it with something harmless.

She is a bit robotic, like a woman who has retreated deep inside to get away from an abusive husband. Stepford wife.

Tax it out of existence. Seize the assets of the founders

We were getting on fine without it.

Human's biggest conceit that you could give every idiot and sociopath a megaphone and it wouldn't cause problems. Opened pandora's box of hateful things.

Then when you have created that mess, employ psychologists to make it addictive to sell adverts.

The world has never been more divided and we are in WW3. The line is clear between that and Social Media's profit from misinformation, political violence and fraud.

Social Media killed trust and spread misery. If it was in the Bible they'd call it Devil's work. Charming on the outside, deeply rotten, manipulative and evil at it's core.

With his fake peace negotiations with Iran.

You want to online trade in my country pay us and play by our rules.

I'm up for a digital tariff. We want a slice if you want to sell your shit here.

Pay my country for the tax payers spend on the infrastructure we invested in that enables you to trade here.

And the free speech argument is BS. Trying to convince us it didn't exist before the Internet, pull the other one. We have one of the the oldest democracies and free press in the world. Stand anywhere on the street and rant all you like. We'll either ignore you, laugh at you or call you a wanker. We wont shoot you, because knives are for a pro, guns are for show.

In respect of free speech the biggest thing the internet achieved was enable hateful, divisive sociopaths to be louder and some ignorant mugs to follow them.

robots.txt clearly ain't working. Turn their tools against them. Can an AI thingummy spot their usage pattern and block 'em? You are paying for their bandwidth/cpu to rip your content off ? Is there an AI shitheads IP list somewhere to subscribe to?

Redirect their traffic to something that spreads propaganda of your choice. Elvis is alive on the moon. Trump is orange satan. Elon musk eats babies. Marmite is the elixir of the GODS.

Hand made in physical goods has value over mass produced. Essentially what AI dross is. Mass produced content.

Guess artist needs a digital certificate in the content. Couldn't trust social media to honour that so do the verification in the browser.

Unfortunately I expect the majority don't care as much as the artists do.

Do some marketing whiz, inflate conceptual value way beyond capability, raise some funds, fail to implement, run away with the loot. Rinse and repeat.

BS. Get back to checking your AI stock prices.

If they are creating anything, it will be lo-fi prototypes, and anything complex, when it breaks they are screwed to know how to fix it and leveraged to the AI companies. Wont be a businessman for long.

If Big Tech want's to eat the economy that's ok, just tax them appropriately to pay for the consequence.

Because if far less people are working, there is less money distributed to buy things and keep the economy rolling.

AI doom stories are part of the marketing hype.

It's sometimes useful at creating dross content, but that was never a problem we needed to solve.

Addiction to dross content to support advertising, screwed up dopamine regulation, yes that's a problem needs solving.

And robots, great for very specific tasks, narrow problem domains. Not even close to the general utility of a human. That's why all the demos are on remote control.

So build all you like, when it bursts sell the data centre's at discount to scientific research to fix the problems you created.

That you can even attempt to excuse this shows a lack of humanity and compassion.

Imagine it were your children, would you accept that, would you dare to call them a human shield, would you blame your government? You would blame who dropped the bomb.

Trump's arrogance and stupidity has made your family and the US enemies of other families for generations to come.

US lost the war when it blew up that school. Any claims it is doing this for the general good and the Iranian people are a lie. They are killing kids.

And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that. No shame === No honour.

You are welcome in Europe.