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Smartphones are addictive and designed by large corporations to be so. Ready to give yours up?

• keiferski 1y ago
  No, because I didn't say anything about forcing people to give up cigarettes. But it seems reasonable to me to have legislation that limits how addictive corporations can make them. Applying the same type of legislation to social media apps (for children, at least) seems reasonable to me.
  • nmeofthestate 1y ago
    > legislation that limits how addictive corporations can make them Such legislation sounds hard to draw up.
• HPsquared 1y ago
  Importantly, they are designed BY large corporations TO BE addictive.
• Frieren 1y ago
  That is a false dichotomy. I want a smartphone with apps that are heavy regulated against bad practices. - No dark patterns that make difficult to unsubscribe or that add automatically products to the basket - No promotion of hate and other highly emotional and highly addictive content - Limit the amount of daily ads so increasing retention time is not a goal - Removal of loot boxes and other gambling from games and other things like that. Medicines are dangerous and have a lot of regulations, nobody is asking to remove all medical products. That is a straw man argument.
• foogazi 1y ago
  Not everyone becomes addicted