re: Have you watched The Social Dilemma

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how is this any different from any other product/marketing? how is it different from sugar? coffee? etc?

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Because they manipulate everything you see on their platform however they see fit - whether it be for advertiser money or for political change as they see fit. It's power like nobody's had before, and they are using it to assloads of money and to enact their own political agenda. These platforms are now so engrained in our society that they aren't going anywhere, either. We have to regulate these companies who hold so much power over our lives.

So yeah, you're correct that it's what people "want", but they want it on a subconscious level and these companies manipulate what you see to purposefully amp up your monkey brain and give you those dopamine hits to keep you coming back. Because it's subconscious you have very little control over it. Do one social media cleanse for a month and I promise it'll be all too clear once you come back to it. The hooks are deep.

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Yeah. I know.

I think drugs should be legal, so...

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I do too, but that's a different ballgame. These companies would be more akin to the pharmaceutical companies shilling Oxycontin as "non addictive" and getting the entire world addicted, and having the power to manipulate small countries and weak governments based upon the supply of drug they give.