It's time to treat social media like the climate crisis, researchers argue

"Please let us arbitrarily censor anyone for any reason and we promise your life will be better"

Yes, this idea worked every time.

So we're going to find another young angry Scandinavian to scold us for our sins? ;-)

"Taking this to the next logical step, they suggest elevating the social media architect to a solemn respectable post, requiring something like a Hippocratic oath."

What's a "social media architect"? Is that a Matrix reference?

The scientists who make apps addictive, perhaps? https://www.economist.com/1843/2016/10/20/the-scientists-who...

The climate crisis is a solution to over-population... not sure what social media does.

Pretend it doesn't exist?

Pretend it doesn't exist and double and triple down on everthing that led to the problem?

I came here to post basically this.

And thinking on what you just wrote, it kind of feels like that is exactly what we’ve been doing with social media.