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What do you think about the idea of banning Twitter in the EU? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Do you think an European Citizens' Initiative to ban Twitter in the EU would be beneficial and have a possibility of being successful?

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

I think people are getting radicalised by more than social media. Podcast aren’t helping either in some cases. And if you live in a country that’s been flooded with drugs then I think people’s capacity to empathise and think critically is diminished.

Bulletin boards won’t solve this problem. They’re just another medium. They are just as much the target of the fire hose of falsehood that other social media platforms are. If mainstream social media is to be banned, and people rush to BBS, bulletin boards will no doubt have their bot activity ramped up and we would be back where we started. In other words, they will target people wherever they go.

If I thought scrapping social media would take us back to the simpler times we lived in before, I would be all for it. Put something about that idea doesn’t add up. It feels like there’s something missing. And if we do go into our individual, social-media free foxholes, how do we ever know when it’s safe to come out again?