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> The world is so dysfunctional with radicals trying to drag your children into their agendas

This was always the case but it was incredibly difficult for those people to reach your kids. Arguably an equivalent of this is dragging children into "capitalistic" agendas via advertising on kids TV, that's certainly not new.

Maybe an unpopular view but I think a lot of the blame lies with the tech giant. It's well documented that YouTube pushes you towards more and more "engaging" (and not so coincidentally extreme) content over time. Same with TikTok and all the others. In the ideal world we'd be removing "engagement" as a goal anywhere but good luck sealing that Pandora's box back up again.



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