[thin_carapace]

"give me a boy until he is seven and I will tell you the man he becomes"

there will be at least 1 entire generation of western kids that spectated short form content on screens since the moment of birth. based on aristotle, this entire generation is going to be retarded. the EU legislature in question enables legal spectation of content exchanged by a generation of the retarded. the optimal path forward seems to be ensuring that the next generation is not retarded, otherwise human extinction will be rapidly accelerated. I don't see how corporate destruction of individual privacy is going to help ensure that the next generation is not retarded.

[Eueudhsbsj32]

Why just western kids? Cell phone and tablet use by little kids in Asia is on a whole other level.

[Hugsbox]

The content children in Asia are exposed to seems to be entirely different in nature. For instance, with Tiktok: it intentionally pushes brainrot content for western users, while in China it pushes educational and in general positive content. Speaking only from what I've read on the subject, and I'm entirely willing to accept that I'm wrong about that, but the point remains that the screens aren't the issue, it's the content on them that is.

[thin_carapace]

did you read any studies that accounted for brain rot short form content vs non brain rot short form content? from my n=1 sample, this content format is universally destructive, regardless as to specific information conveyed

[Hugsbox]

This I can definitely agree with

[thin_carapace]

I have no experience with the way children are raised in asia and am horrified that this phenomenon is not constrained to one particular region

[Scroll_Swe]

Why did you think it was?

[thin_carapace]

I hoped that my tunnel visioned perspective only applied to that which I could see. to be fair according to another commentor asian kids don't get pushed brain rot, so I suppose there are degrees to this

[Scroll_Swe]

Well yes, China has their own TikTok pushing a different algorithm/recommendation

But the western world has been trending down in culture sadly... I was a teen in 2005 and it was grim even then. Everyone wanted to be black for some reason.

[thin_carapace]

the west is in full scale culture annihilation mode. links from the current generation to their ancestors are constantly sabotaged, forcing the repetition of societal mistakes, thus producing generational suffering to be mined for profits. I wonder how youths behave in the east, and what they consider to be cool. it would be interesting to compare cultural methods of societal programming (eg. the west stifles youth uprising by promoting gangster rap & idolizing petty crime)

[protocolture]

Why will basing them on Aristotle make them retarded?

[thin_carapace]

the opening quote is attributed to aristotle

[protocolture]

Ok but the opening quote doesn't say "I agree with this poster that these kids will be retarded"

[Hugsbox]

My brother in christ, please, reading comprehension. The opening quote is saying that a child's formative years will decide how they turn out.

[protocolture]

Yes but it doesnt back up the commenters subjective evaluation at all.

[thin_carapace]

recommend to quickly spit out the bait before you get hooked