Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
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The internet.
If you were gay growing up in a rural area in the 80s, that was horrible.
You were isolated.
So when the internet came in in the 90s, LGBTQ kids, it was a lifeline.
They could get information instantly.
They could find a variety of place where they could interact with people.
And the internet that we had in the 90s
I don't see any sign that that was harmful or toxic.
So the internet is incredible and the internet solved those problems.
Now fast forward to 2012 and later, now what do you have?
What did LGBTQ kids gain by adding onto the internet an environment in which you have algorithms feeding you stuff and connecting you to men who are sexual predators?
Meta has had very lax policies around kicking people off, even involved in sexual trafficking.
They had a 17 strikes and you're out policy, according to one of their former employees.
So the issue isn't, oh, kids in marginalized communities, we'd isolate them if we took away social media.
No, they'd have the rest of the internet.
They wouldn't have the worst part.
And the research shows very clearly that the people who are most harmed, who say that they are most harmed,
are LGBTQ kids.
So yes, they use it a lot more.
They encounter many more sexual predators.
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