You are right and, much like in the case of the War on Drugs, the solution to the perceived problem (people's desire for something addictive and "suboptimal") c

You are right and, much like in the case of the War on Drugs, the solution to the perceived problem (people's desire for something addictive and "suboptimal") cannot be only at the supply side. Whenever there is an unsatisfied demand there is a potential for profit and the niche gets promptly occupied by entrepreneurs. However we could strive to do something much better. The Internet as a whole and the www in particular were born with the goal of being a redundant, indestructible media for communication between distant parts of the globe and to guarantee the exchange of information and knowledge even in the event of a big part of mankind getting obliterated by a nuclear war. It is a miracle that these characters, being typed on a smartphone, are traveling the whole globe wirelessly, via copper cables, optical fibers and reaching all these good people reading it right now. We (mankind as a whole, technicians and builders in particular) should not rationalize our behaviour as something unavoidable. There is profit to be made helping people get their fix (of cheap information, misleading bits and other inanities), I'm a 100% ok with that but keeping in our thoughts that we could also be doing something much better and greater with this miracle we created and received from our elders.