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I hate with a passion any kind of reporting that describes problems among teenagers as caused by "screen time". It depicts it as some kind of flaw among young people who deliberately spend too much time on their phones.
Call it for what it is: abusive practices by a handful of tech corporations. They profit from products deliberately designed to create addiction, and particularly so among children and teenagers.
Stop blaming victims and start blaming the perpetrators.
@gabrielesvelto The thing about screen time is it's easy to measure and easy to restrict.
It's like looking for your lost keys under the streetlamp because the light's better there.
@gabrielesvelto It's also equating a medium (for reading, learning, social interaction, artistic expression, self-discovery, evasion of malicious authority, etc.) with one particular low-value use of that medium (brainrot drivel).
@gabrielesvelto It's also equating a medium (for reading, learning, social interaction, artistic expression, self-discovery, evasion of malicious authority, etc.) with one particular low-value use of that medium (brainrot drivel).
@dalias yes and also deliberately deflects what is causing the addiction. It's like saying that people who suffer from alcoholism have a problem with "bottle time".
@gabrielesvelto @dalias I love this analogy. The real problem with heroin is all that needle time.
@mhoye @gabrielesvelto Diabetics are getting way too much needle time.
"Heroin addicts use needles, and that's bad. But diabetics use needles and that's good. So it can't be the needles that are bad, it must be something else."
I feel like 2500-years-gone Greek philosophers working out modern realities from first principles would do a better job of it than most people.
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@gabrielesvelto
Yes, it's called the Fundamental Attribution Error and it allows the system/perpetrators to continue to get away with what they're doing as long as our attention and efforts remain focused on the wrong thing. The system has become very good at distracting people.