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"Techno moral panics are back in fashion, it seems. There have been multiple
(misleading) stories about “kids and social media“, and then there are always
attempts to dive into specific “new” services. Last fall, it was all about the
kids and their TikTok challenges. But, Tiktok is so last year. So now CNN is
back again, and this time the target of its moral panic is Discord. It has a
whole scary article about “the dark side of Discord for teens.”
Except if you replace “Discord” with any other
ways that teens talk to each
other the story wouldn’t be much different. I’m reminded of earlier freakouts
about instant messaging. Or the widespread moral panic in the 1980s about kids
in day care. Or how about the moral panic of kids who went to raves in the
1980s and 90s. Everywhere you look, they all seem to have the same kind of
pattern. This
new thing is putting
kids at risk and something must be
done!"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
