I like the cut of his jib!

“Op didn’t say social media companies today are like tobacco companies today”

I don’t see how anybody wouldn’t infer it from the headline.

also, I read your source and they don’t go into any specific detail about the actions of the big tobacco companies with the exception of labeling cigarette packs as “light, ultra light, mild, etc…” I was around for that and nobody was under the impression that there was a safe cigarette. The remedy for that just changed from asking the cashier for a pack of “Camel lights” to a pack of “Camel blues.” -At this point in time the Tobacco industry was also already banned from most television and radio marketing, even bilboards ads were disappearing. If comparing social media companies to tobacco companies from 1999 is the standard we’re trying to establish here, then I would have expected RICO cases against Twitter, Facebook, and Google back around some time between 2010-2015 or earlier. -They are so much worse than that now.

I empathize with the immunocompromised but I think the children of the antivaxxer’s that survive are all bound to develop an incurable case of survival bias.

George W. Bush had the highest disapproval with 71% on 10/10/2008.*

FTFY

So they can shoot you in the back as you’re running away. got it.

edit - See u/LifeInMultipleChoice comment

The current tobacco companies are no longer any more evil than any other business is my point. It’s a bad comparison for a modern day Social Media company, especially since so little of the population today was around for when Tobacco companies were at their worst.

The evil tobacco company is an outdated narrative. They were already regulated to hell 22 years ago when I started smoking and since then I’ve only ever seen the regulations increase now with the new apparent goal of outlawing nicotine. I can only speculate that people think this time we’re going to get prohibition right.

btw I quit smoking 7 years ago, and nicotine altogether 5 years ago.

I’m pretty sure Homeland Security was created with the sole intent of subverting the constitution from it’s inception.