Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/31/zuckerberg-apologizes-for-facebooks-affect-on-teens-mental-health.html
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Zuckerberg is a crocodile whose tear ducts have been surgically removed, electively.
I truly hope he rots in hell. Whatever happened to #DeleteFacebook?
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He feels terrible.
He’s still going to keep the doomsday compound and never deny himself one single penny of pleasure because of it though.
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There are still teens on Facebook?
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Why hasn’t Congress passed a single law to protect kids from social media? Plenty of blame to go around.
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Well, glad that’s resolved – {glances at notes} – I’m sorry, that changes nothing.
That said, @jvsquare is right.
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The apology was as convincing as the grovelling of the convicted insurrectionists his platform connected.
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Typical Zuckerberg apology: “I’m sorry about what you went through, but not sorry for actually causing it.”
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It will happen after Congress pass a single law to protect kids from gun violence.
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The sooner he goes into his bunker the better…
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Not Doomsday doomsday, as interpreted by the rest of us, but doomsday for people like him. All that extreme concentration of wealth, the decline in the quality of life, the lack of affordable housing, and the technology-driven ease in contacting and quickly mobilizing huge groups of very angry people must make Zuck and other mega-rich assholes very nervous.
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Oh fuck off, Zuck.
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Ooohh, I think I know the answer to this one!
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There was also the no-so-veiled xenophobia aimed at TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew by Tom Cotton:
“Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?”
“Senator, I’m Singaporean, No.”
“Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?”
“No, senator. Again, I am Singaporean.”
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If only she could have replied, “Does your last name refer to what’s filling your head in place of your brain?”
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These particular attacks from both sides of the aisle won’t work.
The younger voters think the side they prefer (usually the left) are feckless but they tend to prefer them because they don’t sound like fascists, so they think they would be unable to pass any strong social media laws outside of anti-revenge porn laws. The left knows even with that fact they aren’t polling that great with them these days. The right are catering to a base that has no clue what’s really going on with social media so they have no substantial way of proving they are winning their side of the argument at the end of the day. Ted Cruz is acting like he’s still triggered over the fact that his own teenage daughter came out on social media in shear defiance, so he might end up being the right’s achilles heel if these companies play their cards right. These social media companies would make several changes but do it in a way it that also inconveniences their young users in a way to keep it fresh in their thoughts so when november comes around they remember it walking into a voting booth which is something Rand Paul somewhat warned the right about when it came to trying to ban/restrict TikTok. Social media companies have studied intensely about when politicians tried to go after something that was popular with young people going all the way back when Joe Lieberman tried to scare old people about Night Trap and Tipper Gore got embarrassed by Dee Snider and Frank Zappa on the hill.
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Honestly, I’m surprised that any teenagers have even been on facebook for the past 10 years or so. As far as I can tell, it’s entirely gen x-ers and boomers now.
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See also: The Kids in the Hall discover the cause of cancer.
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