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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Social media addiction is not quite the same thing as opium addiction

[–] caveman@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of course not, but can also make people unproductive and by guiding the content you can make the whole population acquire stupid behaviours

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think you're really misevaluating the (non)equivalence between how you're crippled as an organism by opium addiction vs just having your attention fucked up by tiktok

[–] caveman@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Yes, of course.

In this case, what UK+France did to China at that time is much worse than what China is doing to the US now.

So it would be much more hypocritical if UK followed suit