tl;dr – My opinion on restricting social media for young people (totally pro) and the new speak term platform instead of using the word company
I’ve been listening to a podcast where they were talking about social media restrictions for adolescents. I’m pretty happy this discussion is happening now, as my children will hopefully grow up in a society where it’s already been settled. I see it like the prohibition of tobacco or alcohol for people under age. As are the advertisements of cigarettes in public space. It’s good for us that we have this.
But what stood out most to me is that somehow our language has been altered to use the term platform for things like TikTok or X et al.
This disguises the actual reality. These are companies that earn money from our attention or advertisement or selling our data. Period