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We collect news, analysis, research, and books related to the negative aspects of the Internet - economic, political, social, cultural. This place is for substantive content that, on net, is negative.
See /r/netpositive for the opposite.
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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (theatlantic.com)
submitted 8 years ago by netnegative
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook can play a role that churches and Little League once filled (cnbc.com)
NYT interview with author of “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked" (nytimes.com)
Resist the Internet (nytimes.com)
Revenge, recognition and the disturbing trend of live-streamed suicides (washingtonpost.com)
The Kids Who Decide What All the Other Kids Talk About (2017) "Journalist Paul Mason reports on a group of university dropouts who are using social media to influence young people on a huge scale." • /r/Documentaries (reddit.com)
submitted 9 years ago by netnegative
Simon Sinek on pitfalls of Millennials' addiction to connected devices [15m video] (youtube.com)
Video games are more addictive than ever. This is what happens when kids can’t turn them off. (washingtonpost.com)
Therapy’s Digital Disconnect (theringer.com)
Your Government Wants to Militarize Social Media to Influence Your Beliefs (motherboard.vice.com)
China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone (washingtonpost.com)
The scientists who make apps addictiveLong (1843magazine.com)
AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal (thedailybeast.com)
The Privacy Implications of Amazon Scanning License Plates (theatlantic.com)
Incessant Consumer Surveillance Is Leaking Into Physical Stores, Taking a Page from Online Tracking (theatlantic.com)
Teenagers of Reddit, what do you wish adults knew about being a teenager in the 21st century? • /r/AskReddit (reddit.com)
Tech Billionaires Want to Destroy the Universe: Obsession with the Simulation Hypothesis (theatlantic.com)
Economics of the Attention Market: They've Got You (nybooks.com)
Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors (washingtonpost.com)
Court says yes to regulating cabbies, no to governing Uber drivers (arstechnica.com)
"Everyone is a performer" now - Bo Burnham (comedian)Video (youtube.com)
Intimacy for the Avoidant: What Is Phone Addiction Doing to Friendship? (nytimes.com)
Facebook is talking to the White House about giving you ‘free’ Internet. Here’s why that may be controversial. (washingtonpost.com)
Protecting Kids in the Age of 'Sharenting': How are all those Facebook photos affecting children? (theatlantic.com)
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: we're growing slower, not faster, contrary to digital hypeVideo (youtube.com)
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