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goobster · 2310 days ago · link · · parent · post: Don’t fall for the moral panic over children’s screen time
I don't think the internet is original in any way... it's disease is just spread more broadly more quickly. Prior to the web we had crazy zines... The Desert Rat, and the weird Jack Chick treatises, and punk rock mags. And flyers up on telephone poles, espousing crazy. But those were limited due to the distribution medium costing money. (Copies, postage, etc.) Prior to the web we had scam/spam phone calls. People calling at all hours of the day and night and trying to sell scams or products. The internet just makes those 'calls' almost zero cost. The internet has not presented us with new problems, as far as I can tell. Just hyper-scaled versions of our old problems... ... which all stem from most humans just simply being dicks.