Multiple South Korean celebs face school violence and bullying accusations

[goldie3]

South Korean women’s volleyball twins dropped after bullying pasts emerge https://t.co/YMQDTfzRVj
- SCMP News (@SCMPNews) February 15, 2021

TW: school violence, bullying, so please be careful about anything after the cut

Comments

[talklikelions]

That popular searches thing seems awful but maybe i’m misreading it.

[goldie3]

Yeah, on rereading, it may seem wrong. Naver, is removing the option by which you can check the popular searches of the day. So effectively, people won't know what's trending in South Korea in searches. Which is how news spreads.

[talklikelions]

That still seems super fucked! It’s a way to push propaganda and hive mind and the idea of that becoming normal is pretty scary. Very dystopian I guess :(

[talklikelions]

No that makes sense! I was confused by it and how I was interpreting it in the first place and you’re absolutely right! I guess my initial thought was just “without popular searches, our last critical thinking skills will vanish”, but popular searches don’t really contribute to the lost art of critical thinking anyways. In fact now that you pointed it out, trending/popular topics is probably a big reason no one DOES think critically anymore. What everyone else says is right there in front of you, why do more work?