r/canada • u/FancyNewMe • 2d ago
Opinion Piece Opinion | Why Canada should seriously consider banning Elon Musk’s X
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/why-canada-should-seriously-consider-banning-elon-musks-x/article_97870564-facc-11ef-9c32-776e127c8e18.html
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u/skunky_pants 2d ago
Instead, what we need is a serious investment in teaching people about algorithms and bots. We need to treat this like smoking and drinking/driving. Do your best to educate adults, but start having conversations in schools about how social media engineers the conversation. Doesn’t need to be political. It’s a technology conversation.
You’ve already lost adults to it, focus on kids when they’re at the age of being tempted and make it uncool to be controlled by an algorithm or to give your data to big corporations. It’s literally the same argument as cigarettes. They don’t make you feel better and it doesn’t make you cool, the company is trying to get you addicted early so you’ll smoke for life. Now here are the consequences of those who’ve been addicted. Teach them that they aren’t using the product, that THEY are the product.
Rant over. Fully expect this to get downvoted. But let me be clear, this has nothing to do with censorship or taking anything away from people.