#moralpanics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #moralpanics, aggregated by home.social.
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It’s funny Smartphone Free Childhood now idolise 1990s video. At the time there was a full on moral panic about video nasties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty many teenagers would ‘stumble upon’ a VHS of porn under their parents bed… #VHS #Nostalgia #moralpanics
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It’s funny Smartphone Free Childhood now idolise 1990s video. At the time there was a full on moral panic about video nasties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty many teenagers would ‘stumble upon’ a VHS of porn under their parents bed… #VHS #Nostalgia #moralpanics
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Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panic - Andy Masley blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-think-… #AI #DataCenters #MoralPanics
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Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panic - Andy Masley blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-think-… #AI #DataCenters #MoralPanics
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Zap! What television programmers invented and Silicon Valley perfected - part 2 www.linkedin.com/pulse/zap-what… #history #mediaConsumption #television #SocialMedia #moralPanics
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Zap! What television programmers invented and Silicon Valley perfected - part 2 www.linkedin.com/pulse/zap-what… #history #mediaConsumption #television #SocialMedia #moralPanics
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Kapow! Batman, Robin, and the template of moral panic - part 1 www.linkedin.com/pulse/kapow-ba… #history #MoralPanics #SocialMedia
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Kapow! Batman, Robin, and the template of moral panic - part 1 www.linkedin.com/pulse/kapow-ba… #history #MoralPanics #SocialMedia
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New Year's Resolutions of the Past: Vices That Became Virtues newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-re… #history #radio #reading #cycling #MoralPanics #NewspaperReporting
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New Year's Resolutions of the Past: Vices That Became Virtues newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-re… #history #radio #reading #cycling #MoralPanics #NewspaperReporting
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📚 18th–19th c. – Novel reading panic
🗞️ Early 1900s – Dime novels & pulp fiction
🦸 1950s – Comic books & juvenile delinquency
🎸 1950s–60s – Rock ’n’ roll
📺 1960s–70s – Television addiction
🎲 1970s–80s – Dungeons & Dragons
🤘 1980s – Heavy metal & Satanic Panic
🎮 1990s – Video game violence and VHS nasties
🌐 2000s – Internet & online danger
📱 2010s–2020s – Social media & smartphone addiction -
📚 18th–19th c. – Novel reading panic
🗞️ Early 1900s – Dime novels & pulp fiction
🦸 1950s – Comic books & juvenile delinquency
🎸 1950s–60s – Rock ’n’ roll
📺 1960s–70s – Television addiction
🎲 1970s–80s – Dungeons & Dragons
🤘 1980s – Heavy metal & Satanic Panic
🎮 1990s – Video game violence and VHS nasties
🌐 2000s – Internet & online danger
📱 2010s–2020s – Social media & smartphone addiction -
The Online Safety Act doesn’t make our children any safer
The Online Safety Act may be well-intentioned, but it is a fundamentally flawed attempt to legislate away a complex social issue.
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/08/the-online-safety-act-doesnt-make-our-children-any-safer/
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The Online Safety Act doesn’t make our children any safer
The Online Safety Act may be well-intentioned, but it is a fundamentally flawed attempt to legislate away a complex social issue.
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/08/the-online-safety-act-doesnt-make-our-children-any-safer/
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When the Great Resist conspiracy conference came to the North East
The Great Resist meeting, and its touring band of conspiracy theorists, brought their antivax rhetoric and trans-panic messaging to Gateshead
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When the Great Resist conspiracy conference came to the North East
The Great Resist meeting, and its touring band of conspiracy theorists, brought their antivax rhetoric and trans-panic messaging to Gateshead
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Polybius: the legendary video game that never actually existed
According to legend, Polybius was a highly addictive 1981 arcade game developed by a shadowy game studio called Sinneslöschen... but it didn't exist
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/08/polybius-the-legendary-video-game-that-never-actually-existed/
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Polybius: the legendary video game that never actually existed
According to legend, Polybius was a highly addictive 1981 arcade game developed by a shadowy game studio called Sinneslöschen... but it didn't exist
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/08/polybius-the-legendary-video-game-that-never-actually-existed/
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Got any leads? Dog thieves won’t really leave secret signs outside your house
Claims that would-be dog thieves mark their victims' houses with stickers echo old urban legends designed to spread fear and anxiety
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Got any leads? Dog thieves won’t really leave secret signs outside your house
Claims that would-be dog thieves mark their victims' houses with stickers echo old urban legends designed to spread fear and anxiety
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Everything--abso fucking lutely everything--is political.
Which is why you should pay close attention to what's going on with book bans and other censorship--and you should subscribe to Kelly Jensen's "Well Sourced" (on buttondown, natch!)
#BooksAsPropaganda #BookBans #Libraries #MoralPanics #Fascism
Have a taste:
https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/images-from-a-comic-panic-gripping-the-nation/ -
"Jones is impatient with the outsize expectations laid at the feet of librarians. She stresses that the extent of what librarians owe their patrons, including the care they provide to those who wander in through their library doors, is elastic but not infinite."
Melina Moe considers #AmandaJones’s #ThatLibrarian: The Fight Against #BookBanning in America
#USpol #bookbans #censorship #wokebashing #moralPanics #cyberharassment #memoirs #libraries #books @bookstodon
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The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread
The New Jersey drone scare is a perfect case study in how panics seize on oddities and unfounded speculation in order to spread fear
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The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread
The New Jersey drone scare is a perfect case study in how panics seize on oddities and unfounded speculation in order to spread fear
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #395: Teddy Bears.
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#teddybears #softtoy #history #moralpanics #idiots #strangebuttrue #facts #wtf #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #395: Teddy Bears.
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#teddybears #softtoy #history #moralpanics #idiots #strangebuttrue #facts #wtf #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK
"Woman arrested for praying" is the latest in a string of legal cases used by US conservative Christian organisations to fight against progress in the UK
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The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK
"Woman arrested for praying" is the latest in a string of legal cases used by US conservative Christian organisations to fight against progress in the UK
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The Satanic Panic and the McMartin pre-school trial
In 1983, lurid and extreme tales of abuse emerged from a pre-school in California; the allegations were false, as was the rest of the Satanic Panic
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/07/the-satanic-panic-and-the-mcmartin-pre-school-trial/
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The Satanic Panic and the McMartin pre-school trial
In 1983, lurid and extreme tales of abuse emerged from a pre-school in California; the allegations were false, as was the rest of the Satanic Panic
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/07/the-satanic-panic-and-the-mcmartin-pre-school-trial/
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Decades on, we still haven’t fully learned the right lessons from the Satanic Panic
Drawing on her work as journalist at the time, Rosie Waterhouse's "Satanic Panic - A Modern Myth" details the creation of the notorious moral panic
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Decades on, we still haven’t fully learned the right lessons from the Satanic Panic
Drawing on her work as journalist at the time, Rosie Waterhouse's "Satanic Panic - A Modern Myth" details the creation of the notorious moral panic
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#Armed and #afraid: The high #price of #fear with a gun in your hand.
#Farright #Politicians and #media #habitually stoke #fear and #manufacture #moralpanics as a #political #strategy to #amp up their #base.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://dailymontanan.com/2024/05/13/armed-and-afraid-the-high-price-of-fear/
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#Armed and #afraid: The high #price of #fear with a gun in your hand.
#Farright #Politicians and #media #habitually stoke #fear and #manufacture #moralpanics as a #political #strategy to #amp up their #base.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://dailymontanan.com/2024/05/13/armed-and-afraid-the-high-price-of-fear/
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What are moral panics and how do they affect society? Gain a better understanding of this phenomenon by reading @SociologyMag's article: #MoralPanics #Sociology https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/subject-areas/sociology-of-crime-deviance/what-are-moral-panics/
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What are moral panics and how do they affect society? Gain a better understanding of this phenomenon by reading @SociologyMag's article: #MoralPanics #Sociology https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/subject-areas/sociology-of-crime-deviance/what-are-moral-panics/
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The Better Way conspiracy conference went all-in on the moral panic around trans people
Of all the conspiracy theories promoted at last year's Better Way conference, trans moral panic never came up - sadly, this year they rectified that oversight
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The Better Way conspiracy conference went all-in on the moral panic around trans people
Of all the conspiracy theories promoted at last year's Better Way conference, trans moral panic never came up - sadly, this year they rectified that oversight
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The Sound of Freedom: thinking of the children shouldn’t stop us thinking rationally
by Gabriel AndradeOur modern concern for children has been exploited by activists and politicians, like the QAnon-adjacent makers of The Sound of Freedom
#ConspiracyTheories #Media #MoralPanics #QAnon #SoundOfFreedom #OperationUndergroundRailroad
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The Sound of Freedom: thinking of the children shouldn’t stop us thinking rationally
by Gabriel AndradeOur modern concern for children has been exploited by activists and politicians, like the QAnon-adjacent makers of The Sound of Freedom
#ConspiracyTheories #Media #MoralPanics #QAnon #SoundOfFreedom #OperationUndergroundRailroad
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@jeffjarvis We must end this #MoralPanic by encouraging Teens to participate in activity our parents and our parents-parents had their #MoralPanics about.
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Oh, FFS. Orgasms cause dopamine. So do apples, bananas, oranges, and watermelon. Ban them all! Then can we ban the adrenaline raised by Jonathan Haidt's #MoralPanics?
Fareed Zakaria: TikTok is dangerously addictive. We should regulate it now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/14/tiktok-teens-mental-health-regulation/ -
Oh, FFS. Orgasms cause dopamine. So do apples, bananas, oranges, and watermelon. Ban them all! Then can we ban the adrenaline raised by Jonathan Haidt's #MoralPanics?
Fareed Zakaria: TikTok is dangerously addictive. We should regulate it now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/14/tiktok-teens-mental-health-regulation/ -
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#5yrsago Trump slaps 30% tariff on imported solar-cells https://www.axios.com/2018/01/22/trump-issues-tariffs-on-imported-solar-panels-1516657913
#5yrsago Governor of Montana signs executive order banning state from doing business with non-neutral ISPs https://www.techdirt.com/2018/01/23/montana-says-it-wont-do-business-with-net-neutrality-violating-isps/
#5yrsago South Korea, gripped by suicide epidemic, criminalizes suicide-pacts https://web.archive.org/web/20180123121136/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/south-korea-to-criminalise-suicide-pacts-9887660
#5yrsago Today’s scares over smartphones are largely indistinguishable from yesterday’s technology-driven #MoralPanics https://www.wired.com/story/demonized-smartphones-are-just-our-latest-technological-scapegoat/
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