Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Mark Zuckerberg ACCUSED of KILLING Kids, CENSORSHIP Agenda UNMASKED? Robby Soave" video.

  1. If I did not know that ALL of the new tech and social media behemoths were deliberately designing addictive applications -- and there is massive evidence they do, and have deployed the cognitive research to design addictive apps and have for decades -- then I would agree with you. A good parent could have a child with a behavioral addiction that the child succeeds in hiding. This happens.
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  2. These corporations do high-level research on creating behavioral addiction to their products, especially in young, developing people. This makes it different. You have a formidable adversary, and you have to take that into account.
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  3. ​ @michaelh878  IF Good luck with that.
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  4. I agree generally with Robby, but the gun dealer analogy is inapt. No one can sell guns to kids, and no one designs guns for kids. These corporations do high-level research on creating behavioral addiction to their products, especially in young, developing people. This makes it different.
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  5. I agree generally with Robby, but the gun dealer analogy is inapt. No one can sell guns to kids, and no one designs guns for kids. These corporations do high-level research on creating behavioral addiction to their products, especially in young, developing people. This makes it different.
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  6. ​ @deadgolfer6345  YES. There are even courses at the university level in applied psychology. They usually are euphemistically called making products "sticky." This has been true for a long time. Fast food does it, too. This should be common knowledge, frankly.
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  7. ​ @deadgolfer6345 Even this wouldn't do it. Sadly.
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  8. ​ @MirceaKitsune Except that young, impressionable, developing minor children do not have free will in that sense yet, any more than they have full physical development.
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  9. ​ @daveisbrill You must know nothing about the Amish. Drug problems and inc*st are a problem in the young. Rare in adults, not at all rare in the young.
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  10.  @burnthrust  Okay. But who is making money in this picture, and who is having to fight a tidalwave? You are right, but this is harder than you're making it sound.
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  11.  @burnthrust  Fine. Lovely. I don't have kids. Your problem. Say and do whatever you want.
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  12.  @burnthrust  Well then of course you're going to blame parents excessively. I should have known.
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  13.  @burnthrust  No wonder, blaming parents unduly. Should have guessed.
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  14.  @burnthrust  And imagining that if you say certain things, then I'll be "happy." 🤣
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  15.  @burnthrust  Wow, I was censored then uncensored. That is rare!
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  16.  @MirceaKitsune  My culture? Oh really? My culture is the one where I don't presume I know everything about strangers. Or would that be simple sanity?
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  17. @MirceaKitsune  Last time I checked, Europeans are a lot more liberal about cartoons, images, television, and films. Or reading material -- Zola is an author taught in high school. Adult freedom carries with it the responsibility to shelter minors. That's how adults preserve the freedom to watch any Isabelle Huppert film or Lars von Trier film they want without everyone having a cow about it.
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  18. ​@daveisbrill All true, but you still need to push back. Calmly tell them about the downside. Tell them these are designed to create behavioral addiction. These bad actors take advantage of corporation/rich entrepreneur worship. Start by not glorifying those who don't merit it. Does your kid know more about Elon than Einstein? The first famous person I ever heard of was Einstein. Okay, Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor were next, but CEOs weren't.
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  19. ​ @daveisbrill Agreed. Of course.
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  20. ​ @daveisbrill But do not be defeatist. You know what kids are like. They don't hear a word one day, then suddenly perk up and listen the next. There's no accounting for it. Keep trying, and don't lose your cool. The calmer your discourse, the more they listen. The more serious it sounds to them.
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  21.  @daveisbrill  Well, thank you for saying that. I actually care, so it's easy to be normal here.
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  22.  @ab8588  Put that mirror down and pay attention.
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  23.  @TheDionysianFields  We do not disagree. I was conversing with a very nice person who DOES advise his youngsters. He is probably an exception. I never got a smartphone. I never joined Facebook, Twitter, etc. I know they are designed to be addictive. Human relationships have suffered gravely.
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  24. @TheDionysianFields  I wonder how many are in visible, lol.
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  25.  @deadgolfer6345  We're talking age appropriate. Only that.
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  26. ​​ @daveisbrill If that's true, it's devastating. Then consider emigration. I'm serious. If it's really that bad, drastic measures are needed.
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