„Ausserdem glaube ich, dass viele Menschen unterschätzen, was es bedeuten würde, eine #Altersgrenze ab 16 einzuführen. Dann müssen sich nämlich alle im Netz ausweisen, um ihr Alter nachzuweisen, nicht nur Kinder oder Jugendliche. Die Plattformbetreiber müssen ja irgendwie erfahren, ob ein Nutzer volljährig ist. Und es bedarf schon eines grossen Optimismus im Hinblick auf die Stabilität unserer freiheitlich-demokratischen Grundordnung, wenn wir dem Staat so viel Macht geben. Kommt eine Art Ausweispflicht, kann er jede Diskussion namentlich zuordnen. Wenn autoritäre Parteien an die Macht kommen sollten, hätten sie damit ein ideales Werkzeug, um die Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit auszuhebeln.“
#moralpanic
Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration
The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.https://murica.website/2026/02/journalists-jailed-by-ice-are-revealing-the-horrors-of-incarceration/
„Es geht daher nicht um verminderte Intelligenz. Plausibler ist, dass sie sich umsortiert. Wir werden nicht unfähiger, sondern anders fähig. Nicht alles daran ist gut, nicht alles daran ist schlecht. Aber es ist ein Wandel, der eher an die Einführung der Schrift erinnert als an den Verlust eines Sinnes. Das Smartphone ist, bei aller moralischen Überladung, bloß ein neues Werkzeug. Und Werkzeuge verlagern Kompetenzen. Die entscheidende Frage lautet deshalb auch nicht, ob ausgelagerte Fähigkeiten verschwinden, sondern, welche neuen Formen von Können durch die Auslagerung möglich werden. Schon Platon zeigt das paradoxe Grundmuster: Wer schreibt, entlastet das Gedächtnis und gewinnt eine neue Form der Ordnung, Distanz und Abstraktion.“
Six Months Of ‘AI CSAM Crisis’ Headlines Were Based On Misleading Data
"I don't care about the weather. But I will only tolerate a mild overcast. Everything else is uncomftable and I should not have to accept it."
This is how some people talk about queer people. They say they don't care. But then they clearly care a lot, and act like absolute shits to even just the idea of anyone doing anything they personally wouldn't like to do.
Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting To Big Tech
@brad262run
there are fully legal 25mph speed-pedelecs i uk. i often go above 15mph w/o a motor anyway. is that now supposed to be criminalized?
demanding more restrictive speed governors on #ebikes while these are completely absent on much bigger and deadlier cars is just fueling this ebike #moralpanic and #motornormativity.
yes, it can be stressful for a slow biker when a faster biker drives close by, and it can be difficult to overtake a cargobike on a narrow bikepath, but instead of punching down, how about we focus on the shared enemy that is causing bicycles to be crammed together at the edge of the road: those bloody cars, with no speed governor what-so-ever.
Realizing I should probably add a slide about Population Bomb to my standard zoning history talk. It is around this time that downzoning as a tool for population control becomes standard practice in the United States. I’m not familiar with a source arguing for it explicitly yet but also I haven’t read Population Bomb. It may be right there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb #zoning #MoralPanic #hunger #shortage #USHistory #inflation #SierraClub
When The Internet Grew Up — And Locked Out Its Kids
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned
Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/jonathan-haidts-claims-on-kids-tech-crumble-under-scrutiny-from-top-expert-candice-odgers/
> Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…
#bigtech #jonathanhaidt #candiceodgers #socialmedia #moralpanic
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/jonathan-haidts-claims-on-kids-tech-crumble-under-scrutiny-from-top-expert-candice-odgers/
> Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…
#bigtech #jonathanhaidt #candiceodgers #socialmedia #moralpanic
Australia’s Social Media Ban Goes Into Effect As Pretty Much Everyone Realizes It’s A Total Mess
The fact that Henry David Thoreau first introduced the term #brainrot to criticise the alleged tendency of his time to oversimplify complex issues shows once again the big influence of #moralpanic on public discourse.
As someone from the US (a country with enough digital surveillance already), I don't relate to this whatsoever. Surely, no sane European would seriously object to government spying on accounts suspected of abuse material, but, if you oppose government snooping on *everyone's every post*, you are apparently "scum". Such rhetoric poisons political discourse, and also distracts from talk on how to tackle actual crime.
https://reason.com/2025/12/01/the-free-world-is-coming-for-your-private-messages/
I bought some frozen sticky rice wraps from Fairway Market; they're made in Vancouver. Made a quick vid about how I'm unapologetic about eating & using #MSG & how fears of it was based on #AntiAsian #AntiChinese #racism & not solid #FoodScience.
"If the science doesn’t support MSG as a dietary villain, why did so many people come to loathe and fear it? The answer lies not in biology, but in bias. The very name “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” points to the misconception’s insidious core: it singled out Chinese cuisine (and by extension, Chinese people) as suspect. This framing tapped into old Western prejudices portraying Asian food as unhygienic, exotic, or untrustworthy. As Korean-American chef David Chang observes, avoidance of MSG became “a cultural construct” – essentially a socially accepted excuse to distrust foreign cooking under the guise of health concerns. In plainer terms, it was ignorance and xenophobia masquerading as wellness"
https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/is-msg-safe-should-i-eat-msg-racism-history-of-chinease#
#AsianMastodon #Decolonization #ChineseFood #AsianFood #FoodRacism #CulturalFoodEducation #Xenophobia #ChineseRestaurantSyndrome #AntiAsianHistory #WhitePanic #DecolonizeYourMind #FoodFacts #MoralPanic
TW: Masturbation shaming and #MoralPanic by @harpers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
The Goon Squad: Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless #masturbation #GoonCaption
harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Koli...
NY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work Until Paragraph 14
QAnon turned moral panic into power — predators clo
aked in outrage, feeding on fear. Truth isn’t loud; it’s buried. 🧠🔥
This has to stop! These people are drinking *tea* and it's ruining their health and therefore our prospects of profiteering off of their labor! - some French govt official throwing down brandys and cognacs while smoking a cigar, probably.
Article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tea-in-tunisia
#History #Colonialism #Tea #MoralPanic #France #Algeria #Tunisia
![Atlas Obscura
In 1930s Tunisia, Doctors Feared a ‘Tea Craze’ Would Destroy Society
It was seen as a threat to colonial rule.
by Nina Studer, February 27, 2019
When the Academy of Medicine convened in Paris in 1927, a French-
trained Tunisian doctor, Béchir Dinguizli, sounded the alarm about a
phenomenon he claimed was tainting Tunisia’s social system. This virus had
struck the country’s morals with lightning speed, Dinguizli warned, and it
had the power to completely paralyze Tunisian society. The alarming threat?
Drinking tea.
Teaser Image: Outside a Moorish cafe, Tunis, Tunisia, in the late-19th century, when coffee was still the dominant drink & tea was rare. Library of Congress/LC-DIG-ppmsc-06041
"The rapid spread of tea became a topic of discussion during...meetings of the Great Council of Tunisia in 1925 and 1926. Among these French administrators, there was real fear that the colonized population was turning into tea addicts, w/ medical, social, and economic consequences for France’s mission civilisatrice.
Throughout the 1920s & 1930s, many French authors (and a Tunisian) urged the French govt to take action against tea, claiming that Tunisian men, women, and children were drinking it all day w/out moderation or restraint. The journal Colonial Annals summarized these fears in 1930, asserting, “The harm that [tea] causes is especially visible in the [Tunisian] countryside, where it weakens the race, which is literally intoxicated & morally & physically diminished.”](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/511/914/373/700/962/original/6007f20e97b06578.png)
Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do
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