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Can you teach someone to use heroin responsibly? I get what you mean but these devices are addicting af and disrupt focus.
How you use the device is what matters. I use my smartphone to read books for example, and on YouTube I watch a lot of informative content.
What's addictive is the pre-installed social media apps on our smartphones, that is what needs to be regulated.
Wow, you sound much smarter and seem to have so much more self control than all of those dumb people getting addicted to their phones.
The problem is that at the moment the education ministries of EU member states can not regulate social media apps. We just had the identical discussion in Austria. They need to ban smartphone use in schools at the moment, because it's the only legal route to get those teenagers away from social media during school hours.
but phone is not comparable to heroin. gaming or social media could be addicting. if sugar is addicting, do we ban shops? because shops sell sugary stuff (similar to phone providing the addictive thing)
We actually sorta tax sugary drinks, yeah.
When we identify something as addictive enough to be problematic, the government finds a suitable way to interrupt, slow, or even ban it, depending on what people are receptive to.
This is normal.
so tax social media and gaming, not the shop
Again, some countries do stuff like that. They put regulations on what addictive content games can have, like loot boxes. China has attempted to restrict how many hours citizens can play games (though there’s a lot of resistance to it).
Social media is even trickier because it’s so vaguely defined, and doesn’t involve payment to begin with. What’s the concept - “Please pay a 5c tax to view one page of posts”? Even so, government committees have taken social media companies to task for their algorithms promoting divisive content before.
What a deceitful comparison. Like it or not no one is living without a smartphone these days. Heroin is entirely optional.