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‘Where do we go now?’: Malaysia’s under-16 social media ban leaves teens detached and displaced
(www.straitstimes.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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'Victim' is the correct word.
These young people were fed into a digital ecosystem that is 100% meant to be harmful to their brains in order to get them to buy shit they don't need. If we lived in a just world Facebook would have been held criminally accountable when it was disclosed in 2014 that they were conducting experiments on their users by tweaking their news feeds in order to manipulate them.
Thanks to the addictive element of these applications it will require effort to reorient themselves into this new reality, but that's better than living in front of a screen. In time, they'll learn that but it is going to be a learned skill.