Sure everyone having access to the internet 24/7 in their pocket is damaging to society, but think about just being able to record video wherever you go.
In todays world anything if abnormal happens, the average person pulls out their cell phone and starts recording IMMEDIATELY. From then on the social interaction is fake, they are hiding behind their camera and anything you do or say is being recorded as evidence not just for the justice system, but for the world stage, society as a whole.
These riots, protests, anything in public every single person has their phone out with it in another persons face while screaming at each other, using the phone as a weapon. In this moment they are acting completely inhuman and abnormal. It is the strangest thing, it's like an appeal to the future public.
It's also a way to use it as a shield, to bypass social norms, for example I saw some Pro-BLM white guy walk right up into a crowd of Freedom loving Patriots carrying baseball bats, without the safety of his phone/video evidence, say just 10 years ago, he'd have to be absolutely insane to do that, because no one would save him. He would just be a lone dude walking into the lions den, he wouldn't have the ability to broadcast whatever happens to the ENTIRE WORLD. It's like everyone walking around with a dead-mans switch, holding everyone in the area hostage.
This recording prevents actual social norms and justice to be carried out within communities, and leaves it all up to the State/justice system. Nothing in the moment, just a detached stalemate of an interaction. The strangest things are allowed to happen because people cannot respond the same way they would be able to just 10 years ago. The state has a monopoly on violence and negative interaction in a way we have never seen before. The only people that don't care about the recording are usually minorities because they don't care about the consequences, they don't have anything to lose, and the media wouldn't blow up the interaction. White people are hesitant when the phone comes out, because they have things to lose and the media would BLOW IT UP and it would result in losing their job/social shaming, and be subject to the (((legal system))). When that phone goes up, they have the entire MSM/social media mob behind them, and the inverse, the guy on the other end, is facing the same.
Not to mention the "false flagging" I'm sure takes place in these amateur videos. Before smartphones they couldn't stage random public interaction easily, because people would think "How was this filmed, this guy just happened to be walking around with a huge video camera?". There are millions of negative interactions every single day, and obviously the 1/100,000,000 scenario the media can take and broadcast to attack an entire group of people.
Pointing the phone is the same as pointing a weapon, you're held hostage. I'm sure you all have examples from your own life, but I'll share mine. Last year I was sitting in my car in an empty parking lot outside of a restaurant, out of all the parking spaces to park in, this woman parks her SUV next to my car, gets out and hits my car with her door. I open my passenger window and say "Uhh hey you hit my car", all I wanted was acknowledgement and an apology. She said "No I didn't" and I replied "Uh yeah I just saw you...", I get out of my car to inspect the damage. There was no damage, as I am about to say this to her, she whips out her phone and gets in my face yelling "You little bastard, you little devil!". I retreat to my car and this woman is encircling my car filming every angle, of course getting my license plate, as you do when you are making a case against someone. She is protected by her phone, no longer even required to look at me when I am right in front of her, because she is now looking at me through her phone screen.
The moment that phone goes up, the interaction is no longer genuine.
Thanks for reading my ramble rant
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[–] andrew_jackson ago
Thank you. I think that reducing cell phones and social media is as important as counter-attacking China. Well said, Sir.