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This title is very dangerous, since it implies that it's the Internet that needs to be regulated and not the toxic enterprises that use it. It's like regulating
by phoe-krk 9y ago
This title is very dangerous, since it implies that it's the Internet that needs to be regulated and not the toxic enterprises that use it. It's like regulating breathing in a classroom because some guy keeps on farting in it.
Internet by itself is not addictive; enterprises that abuse their users are. They have to work like this, since their profit depends on how much attention they can steal and therefore how many advertisements they can display and how much data they can gather to further process and sell.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoAt some point, the addicts themselves have to be addressed. Sure, pushers are contributing to the problem. But internet addiction was a thing before the pushers found the internet. In fact, the first Internet Addiction diagnosis was made at my local University Hospital about 20 years ago (I knew the doctor).
- phoe-krk 9y agoThey have a high chance of not being addicted to the Internet, but addicted in general. The main question isn't what addicts are escaping into but what they are escaping from.