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@larsmb@mastodon.online @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Satanic Panic doesn't have a list of victims, but I got this in 2 seconds of searching. Teens Whose Deaths Were Linked to Social Media: Molly Russell (14): A British teen whose 2017 death was linked to social media, prompting inquests into Instagram and Pinterest content. Jordan DeMay (17): Died by suicide in 2026 after a "financial sextortion" scam involving a fake Instagram account, leading to a lawsuit against Meta. Coco Arnold (17): Died in 2022 from fentanyl-laced pills allegedly sold by an older man contacted through Instagram. Bradyn Bohn (17): Died by suicide following a financial sextortion scheme, leading to a lawsuit against Meta. Cameron Murphy (15): Died by suicide; his mother cited his addiction to Instagram and TikTok. Jools Roome (14): Died in 2025 after a suspected TikTok challenge. JackLynn Blackwell (9): Died in 2026 attempting a viral social media dare. Renna O'Rourke: Died attempting a "dusting" challenge in 2025. Ciara Pugsley: Committed suicide after being bullied on Ask.fm. Jessica Laney: Hanged herself after being bullied on Ask.fm. Daniel Perry: Jumped to his death after being blackmailed on Skype. Audrey Sites: Died from suicide following targeting on Roblox.

@beecycling You're fired for no work life balance, sorry.

@mweiss @chu I had to get a protection order. In two Atlanta hotels she's not allowed to be a guest any longer because she came to my room too often (and I had hotel security remove her). The boss was a woman, the HR rep who fired me was a woman. Both of their bosses and the CEO were women. The harassment got so bad that it put my marriage at risk and I attempted suicide - forever changing my life and maybe making me lose my ability to work. I was the one arrested for DV in stopping her from coming into my room in one town (if you tell the cops someone is trying to sleep with you - it's domestic violence to defend yourself if you're a man). The ironic thing is that my boss told me to "step aside" for the women in my firm who were making moves. They kept putting me on trips with this person, even reassigned my employees to them at one point in a power struggle. We worked together well, we were partners. But the culture of drinking often put her on a path of excess and it became an obsession to "be with me". At one point, she was obsessed with making a child! I'm 100% certain - for gender reasons - this is going to be my fault somehow. I'm pointing out their genders, but not blaming them for it or anything. But because men typically are a problem, I'm not to be believed. I pushed the EEOC, who did nothing in the end.

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social It's so badly done!

@smeg I love biking in DC!

@HakeemG Hasan was created to elect Trump and keep him in power.

@HakeemG My local art museum is free all the time due to donations from the private sector.

@georgetakei Interesting way to say "don't try ME for war crimes"

@georgetakei I've died and gone to television

@the_wub @mhoye @thesquirrelfish The algorithm is designed to abuse us, we know that, people are dead. Stop talking about age verification - destroy the machine designed to hurt us already. Stop taking up their debate to keep the "right" to be abused. Organized crime? Facebook is extracting money from society with fake ads, fake clicks on those ads, pairing pedophiles with children and abusing our innate desires and exploiting our desires - making us tribal and caustic as a society. We're worried about the fear of organized crime? It's killing us *now*. Are we really discussing our right to have this tool or are we fighting for the right to be abused by it? Facebook got Trump elected. It's helped enabled genocide in parts of the globe. Most of the COVID disinformation started with 12 people on Facebook. They serve ads for illegal medications that are actually deadly poisoned drugs. My local news stations post 10 stories a day causing racial conflict. Their business model is ads - which are served to bots, clicked on by bots and are estimated to be 25% scams outright. Give them an ID? They should be abolished.

@squared99 @chu Article mentions a work trip. Those are the ones I was abused on.

@lalah @mhoye @thesquirrelfish It's a real conservative mindset that protects companies rights to make money on harmful products as opposed to stopping the ability for them to cause harm. Kids died, we have a duty to stop it. Doing nothing is a choice, not the only one. But people get really upset when you point out there are kids dying and they are choosing to do nothing - but that's their decision.

@Nonilex Matthew 24:5

@remixtures Health insurance is a blight on humanity

@chu @mweiss @mawhrin No where did I dispute statistics or bring up anything to make me be told this twice now. I said I support the placement of the ad in airports - work trips are the place these things happen. I know, it was being followed on a trip that made feel cornered and feeling like my only escape was to attempt my own life (there in the airport). Was told to, that there is no escaping the attention I didn't want. I had been through this before, it ruined my relationships. And it did again, I lost everything because of this person who pursued me.

@chu @mweiss @mawhrin I've deleted multiple replies - people largely are dismissive and it's what got me arrested and them not. I remember sitting in the police station crying that I was there and they were not - it felt wild.

@akareilly @LukefromDC @oberstenzian Exactly, social media doesn't work at all, the human mind shuts down and doesn't even process the things people say.

@mawhrin @mweiss @chu what is the point of your comment to me right now?

@HamonWry The #TrumpEpsteinFiles

@the_wub @mhoye @thesquirrelfish Okay you're saying people will bootleg the algorithm facebook has? Again - stop - this is your debate you're FORCING on us.

@ymasumac @smeg ... Can I come to Chicago and reasonably "pick up" a bike somewhere and ride like DC?

@oberstenzian @akareilly Abolish Facebook, algorithms. They aren't good for any of us. People fighting to keep them despite knowing better are addicts.

@thesquirrelfish @mhoye Age verification is not a fix, but ignoring the problem isn't a fix either. People are addicted to social media and fighting to keep it, no matter who is dead.

@the_wub @mhoye @thesquirrelfish Also reading again - you're not ready for this discussion. Those weren't the problems in the 1920s.

@serapath @thesquirrelfish @mhoye you've said "epstein class" twice now in unrelated ways - no one is pushing for giving any data away, you're not replying to us. It's not even sensical.

@thesquirrelfish @mhoye we're all being abused - I'm super suspect of people out here defending these evil company's right to make money off us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoibAbdQf58

@thesquirrelfish @mhoye exactly - the algorithm is the problem - it was connecting pedophiles with kids to keep both parties on platform... that's criminal. Asking for ID doesn't do anything.

@mhoye @thesquirrelfish sorry you're stuck in a loop - age verification is a red herring, you're going in circles on it to the point, you're now saying social media companies should police themselves for some reason? if there are products that are so harmful we need to protect people of certain ages then maybe, idk, we should get rid of those products

@mhoye @thesquirrelfish sigh, you're right, we should do nothing even though we have this mountain of evidence, it's the same... EDIT: Weird analogy, since you have to show ID to buy alcohol.

@kelson @lalah @mhoye @thesquirrelfish You're argument is me saying to NOT do ID enforcement and instead ban facebook is the same as "don't do anything" Please. EDIT: I said defending Facebooks right to abuse you is a conservative viewpoint and your response is comparing me to someone defending ICE... Please, stop this.

@mweiss @mawhrin @chu It happens, people need to protect their stereotypes. I've been subjected to this twice. As a minor I worked for the local newspaper's satellite office. There was a woman there who prayed on minors, plying them with alcohol. She took us out for a "Christmas Party" where multiple people got sick, ushered me into her bed and undressed me before taking things further... To this day I'm still blamed for being the aggressor by my (former) friends despite them seeing me being pulled into her room while trying to leave. She even used the incident to try and put distance between me and others who were interested in me romantically. They didn't fire her, though a woman did resign in disgust (only one of the people involved in HR was a man, the bosses were women and the HR reps were women). She then slept with two more minors before being let go. They somehow let the second report slide because he admitted to being willing - though she was the manager and he was 17 years old and illegally drunk. It took 3 reports of sex with children. Anyone else would label her a pedophile like Epstein though she did it with an apartment and drugs/alcohol and not an island and a helpful mistress. In the end, it hurt people all the same. In every case those teens lost the person they were dating when she targeted them.

@serapath @mhoye @thesquirrelfish I have never in my life asked for age verification, you're replying to me saying to stop bringing it up as a solution

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social @drahardja@sfba.social It's beyond just being bad, it's unnatural. It's not just that people should be suspect, it will actively turn people away because it's too bad. It's not a typo your brain fills in the blank - she's marked as an outsider, she doesn't know the language and comes off as an imposter. EDIT: Even on their faces, they are confused by the copy. This *is* created by outsiders with bad formatting/punctuation. There has to be extra commas in there.

@LukefromDC @oberstenzian @akareilly No, I'm starting to think this too. Watching right now the biggest instance protect a guy's right to slam 40% of American men, saying they committed a crime, and two users push back and get banned. This isn't good for us either, it's the same toxic nonsense, play for keeps, zero sum. It's a dopamine hit, it's political with gender wars.

@kelson @thesquirrelfish @mhoye again - you're framing me as advocating age verification, please don't join the thread late and do that when I've explicitly and repeatedly not.

@servelan Vance lines up to serve Putin as well.

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @larsmb@mastodon.online you should just state your point - if it is that the panic had an effect on people, that's an aside, Facebook has lead to people dying. D&D did not, the Satanic Panic was invented - Facebook has actually led to kids dying. Not sure why you're trying to cover this up so much?