[johnea]

As a leftist, I'd be really happy to see most CA legislators banned. Let's start with Gavin, and his pro-utility, anti-consumer CPUC.

Now that that problems solved, let's just ban meta, the twit-verse, and twerk-tik completely. The whole asocial media industry is just a giant waste of time and space.

One has to winder if the whole thing wasn't bootstrapped as a feed industry for the mental illness industry...

[iamnothere]

I have similar contempt for these politicians and for the affected companies. But as a leftist, surely you must understand that these centrist wonks want this creeping regulation as a tool against you just as much as anyone. Being the idiots that they are, they blame their lack of control over social media for their continued losses, and not their absolute failure at governance. But they hate you just as much as (maybe more than) those on the right, as is clear any time a left-leaning candidate starts to gain ground politically.

[johnea]

I agree (and upvoted you btw)

That's why I think this nit-picking, "no doom-scrolling" regulation is worthless.

A) It doesn't strike at the root of the problem, and therefore won't solve ti.

B) Orgs like these, that do immeasurable public harm, should just be eliminated.