Society utopia meme7/28/2023 This just illustrates the issue that tech companies face with their platforms as precise moderation of content is not possible yet, meaning there is an inability to truly tell the difference between bad and good content. Despite the very good reason for the banning of adult content Tumblr faced a backlash from its users over the blanket ban and lost many of its users due to it. I believe it is fair to say it will not be the last either. This ban was enacted after apple banned Tumblr from its App Store due to concerns of its NSFW/ adult content, as despite many users partaking in Tumblr's hosting of 18+ content, there were a darker group sharing child pornography.Īs concerning as this is, Tumblr is undoubtedly not the first to encounter similar issues. Personally, the first time I became aware of some of the dark corners within these well-known social platforms was Tumblr's 2018 restriction on certain content. While social networks were not set up as a tool for it, they act as a gathering place for radical thinking counter to the progress of general society and allow further generation exposure to these concepts and ideas. Just take a look at the Neo-nazi movement around the globe, over 70 years since the end of the second world war and there are Nazis again. This in itself can and has been a wonderful thing for those looking for support, but it also provides the same gathering for less desirable groups. Parallels have already been drawn between the advent of social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter, and a distinct increase in rates of self-harm and suicides amongst American children and Teenagers of 'Gen-Z', but I wonder what other parallels might be drawn by looking at the rates of gun violence and radicalization of youths within education institutions.Īs the social 'norms' are advertised further, those fitting outside this mold find communities of their own. This first became apparent seeing the increase of cases of cyber-bullying, at first minor but increasingly numerous and driving the bullied further into corners. However, increasingly as social media permeates the very fabric of society and human relations, the cracks begin to appear on the veneer on people's capacity for humanity. I fell into this category of thought, believing that ultimately any and all new technologies with the capacity for great good would be used in this manner, even if there were some exceptions to this. Parents overly worried about their children's usage of social media were almost mocked and seen as a unique inability to cope with change, relegating these parents to a status similar to 'Anti-vaxxers' as paranoid without reason. It was not that long ago that thinking of a dark side to social media seemed to pale in comparison to the real dangers lurking in the ether of the internet, such as the 'Dark Web' a back door on the internet that handles countless nefarious ongoings.
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