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Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

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286 points saikatsg | 4 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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maldonad0 ◴[05 Sep 25 18:10 UTC] No.45141691[source]▶
Good! Every country should ban social media. Enought of this psychological poison. Messaging apps are enough for long distance contact. For small scale, specialized discussion, there are forums. Mass many-to-many platforms have to go. But overall, it is imperative that people go back to "living" in the real world, instead of the fake reality created by social media.
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1. sMarsIntruder ◴[06 Sep 25 06:49 UTC] No.45147185[source]▶
Freedom on choice, my friend.

Countries that decide what’s good and what’s bad for its people, they usually tend to tyranny in the end.

I could make some recent examples.

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2. maldonad0 ◴[06 Sep 25 12:00 UTC] No.45148518[source]▶
Banning methamphetamine or heroine is not tyranny.
3. mcdeltat ◴[06 Sep 25 21:19 UTC] No.45152944[source]▶
We realised things like lead in toothpaste (or whatever the fuck other whack "medicine" they came up with decades ago) were harmful and should be broadly disallowed, why not something like social media too?

Legitimate question. Killing someone = bad. Poisoning people with whack medicine = bad. Causing loneliness and mental health epidemic = good ??

Societies have always decided what is and isn't allowed.

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4. AnimalMuppet ◴[06 Sep 25 21:29 UTC] No.45153035[source]▶
Well... we let people drink alcohol in excess, even though that often causes significant negative outcomes. We let people eat garbage overprocessed food, even though in quantity that can cause significant negative outcomes.

So we're not regulating every possible negative outcome. We're only blocking some that are "too" negative. Where's the line? It moves over time, and it changes from area to area. Food, for example, is regulated as to poison, but not as to just being junk.

We have the freedom of not living in a nanny state. Not everything that can cause harm is forbidden.