[lotsofpulp]

Remove the phones and the problem will remain, which is people’s desire to consume detrimental content, or content in detrimental amounts.

Before phones/computers/internet, it was garbage on television channels. Propaganda on 24/7 “news” channels, “reality” tv shows, etc.

[ColdStream]

While that is true, the friction to access has been made far too easy. Adding in some inconvenience may actually be a good thing. It also helped that in the print/radio/television period, you couldn't hyper focus content at a specific individual. What was broadcast was free for all to see and critique.

I'm not advocating for a return to that, but that was one of the highlights of the era.

[spaqin]

Oh the power may remain, but at least finally the buses and subways will be free of the constant noise of someone blasting short form content or games who doesn't have headphones. I'll take that.

[__MatrixMan__]

So it's not propagandists that are the problem, but rather the people they target? That's an odd take.

Maybe we should've shown a little more spine when they asked us to build a medium for the strong would use to prey on the weak. Maybe we're the problem.

[squigz]

It's not that odd of a take to recognize that the people abusing their power and those eating it up are both part of the problem in their own ways.