Not really. Denver, Seattle, and New York on that chart are all areas of very high population density with very low heart disease and obesity rates relative to much smaller cities in the Southeast.

There are clear cultural/regional trends here beyond just the fact that denser urban populations tend to be fatter on average, although that is true as well.

Whole Foods already does this for the record. It's non-contact. You hover your hand over the scanner.

I think it's silly as well, but not for sanitary reasons. Those shouldn't be an issue.

So again.. reddit and YouTube

The content is a result of the audience. Teenagers have always been this way. You're just out of touch.

And you honestly, genuinely in your heart of hearts, think that is worse than all the shit I saw on 4chan and LiveLeak as a child?

To the point that we need to ban TikTok because the algorithm is just that toxic, but me seeing a beheading when I was like nine was okay? Those parts of the internet were and are fine?

Or is your argument that those are also a problem and we need a "great firewall of America" where only approved websites are allowed to grace our delicate children's eyes?

How do you differentiate between individual responsibility, parental responsibility, and governmental responsibility for online content?

Sure they just had humans doing it, which seems equivalent.

Well no... but hundreds of years of being wrong in the exact same way might be evidence to hesitate about coming to the same conclusions yourself.

It doesn't obviate being wrong, but it suggests caution for sure, right?

Do you have any data or insider information to validate that? Because I would argue that I see significantly more depression memes on Reddit than what my friends have ever shown me on TikTok.

They get pushed to signed out users same as any other sub with enough traffic. I fail to see how that's different than algorithmic selection from a new user perspective.

So exactly what reddit does? Glorify depression and bipolar disorder and suicide jokes because it makes good memes?

You never been to /r/me_irl or /r/dankmemes before? They're quite large/popular.

TikTok is no worse than reddit or Facebook or video games or MSN Messenger or IRC or BBS or television or radio or books or whatever other shit the adults of the generation claimed was "poisoning the youth".

You aren't enlightened. You're just old.

This is the exact same moral panic we've been seeing for centuries, and pretending TikTok is truly the most serious it's ever been is extreme hypocrisy.

How many things do you think you enjoyed as a child/teenager that at least some adults of the time said that about?

I've heard people suggest making the internet illegal for minors. I've heard old people suggest making all video games illegal. Don't be part of that.

Don't ban TikTok specifically. Pass reforms that require better privacy and data collection behavior from all social media companies, Chinese or American.

Twitter is a private company with people arguing about how they should moderate their own, optionally used website.

This is a law. The only way to "not use" it would be to emigrate, which is often expensive and can take years.

There's a difference between deleting your Twitter account and deciding to stop being British, thus the difference in opinion of how much censorship is too much.