• m532@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 hours ago

    The only way you can’t have poor mental health in the empire is to consciously ignore everything bad all the time. This doesn’t count as a ‘mental health problem’ (it clearly is), as its how the bourgies want us to be.

  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    I’m reasonably certain that it would be much more accurate to say that people who are prone to depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury and digital self-harm are more likely to use the dark web.

    Broadly, this isn’t the first time that it’s struck me that pedantic moralizing often relies on reversing cause and effect…

    • whoever loves Digit 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏴‍☠️@piefed.social
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      13 hours ago

      I would say it’s more like, yeah of course when a “silent majority” forces a tiny percentage of people to rely on obscure tools to fight constant attacks on their right to free speech, then yeah that world might have that tiny percentage struggling more than the group attacking for fun

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      We had the “AI chatbot” mental illness link the other day, what’s next, people using apps to bet on sports are poorer?

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    10 hours ago

    I wonder if this is less of a link between those things and the dark web, and more of a link between the mental issues and being beyond terminally online and over-informed about all the most horrible shit out there.

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    15 hours ago

    No shit suicidal people are turning to the dark web. People are not allowed to talk frankly about it hardly anywhere. Apparently we can’t even talk shit about ourselves without it being labeled “digital self-harm 😭”.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, there are tons of places where you can’t even start a frank discussion about it without just being spammed with the suicide prevention hotline and have your post/comments taken down. Yeah, it’s SUPER important that people know those resources exist when they’re in crisis but you can’t just send them that, block them from talking to people when they may not have anyone else to talk to, then congratulate yourself on a job well done.

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    12 hours ago

    Unsurprising.

    The dark web exists to serve criminals, subversives, and paranoid people. Why else would someone go to the trouble of accessing a part of the internet with a worse user interface that requires additional work to access? There is a pre-existing filter for people who are mentally unwell.

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      11 hours ago

      You win the most nescient comment I have read today. I long for the time when it filtered out people with narrow minded views like yourself.