Prominent Canadian law professor Michael Geist says a social media ban would fail to protect kids while also posing risks to privacy and free expression for all Canadians.
It wasn’t that it’s a bad analogy that provoked my ire (although it is) — it was more about the apparent intention behind it. The problems with “social media” are not inherent to social media. It’s not a fundamentally dangerous drug, it’s a whole universe of different forms of telecommunication which people have come to rely on in myriad ways, the most prominent of which are badly designed for nefarious reasons that are completely avoidable without demonizing the whole concept. Aim to stop the abusers who’ve taken it hostage, not to abolish the whole concept or restrict it through unconscionable intrusions on civil liberties.
It wasn’t that it’s a bad analogy that provoked my ire (although it is) — it was more about the apparent intention behind it. The problems with “social media” are not inherent to social media. It’s not a fundamentally dangerous drug, it’s a whole universe of different forms of telecommunication which people have come to rely on in myriad ways, the most prominent of which are badly designed for nefarious reasons that are completely avoidable without demonizing the whole concept. Aim to stop the abusers who’ve taken it hostage, not to abolish the whole concept or restrict it through unconscionable intrusions on civil liberties.