A poll conducted by Israel’s Channel 12 found that half a million new young Jewish Israeli voters are the most right-wing and religiously fanatic in Israel’s history. They’re voting in the upcoming Knesset elections.
It’s why I wouldn’t mind if my country had age restrictions or outright bans on social media. Most people are too tech illiterate to figure out how to navigate outside of those apps.
The problem with the age restrictions is that it does nothing to actually stop things. The kids can’t make a facebook account, but they can browse 4Chan.
I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the topic, hopefully someone else can explain or link something more in-depth. But just based on personal experience, have you seen the youtube or twitter algorithms, etc? They basically hand feed you reactionary far-right content regardless of your usage habits. It probably only takes a few minutes within making a new account and clicking on/viewing the content that is shown or recommended to you for it to start showing you reactionary content. And if you interact with those in any way, it will start giving you more and more.
Social media is designed to create fascists.
It’s why I wouldn’t mind if my country had age restrictions or outright bans on social media. Most people are too tech illiterate to figure out how to navigate outside of those apps.
The problem with the age restrictions is that it does nothing to actually stop things. The kids can’t make a facebook account, but they can browse 4Chan.
I would like to hear more about the mechanisms of this.
I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the topic, hopefully someone else can explain or link something more in-depth. But just based on personal experience, have you seen the youtube or twitter algorithms, etc? They basically hand feed you reactionary far-right content regardless of your usage habits. It probably only takes a few minutes within making a new account and clicking on/viewing the content that is shown or recommended to you for it to start showing you reactionary content. And if you interact with those in any way, it will start giving you more and more.
I found a random article talking about it in regards to youtube: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtubes-algorithm-recommends-users-right-wing-religious-content-resea-rcna155478
I’ve seen videos of people making a new YouTube account and just letting videos autoplay until it starts getting fashy (Doesn’t take long!)