I get that scrolling can become compulsive for some people, but I think comparing it to Big Tobacco or even like the firearms industry kind of overstates the case. Many industries have massive negative externalities and a stranglehold on regulation through lobbying, loose campaign finance laws, and regulatory capture. Big tech is bad but this line of argument is nearly as bad.
And if I have to use it for work, it in no way forces me to use it at home. I'm no fan of "big tech" but I can easily chose not to use it.
Just like with "porn addiction" or "curing homosexuality" the people pushing it in serious contexts are generally ones running for-profit private "detox" centers or expensive "treatments". These modern memes about how screens are addictive being taken seriously are themselves the danger. If you look at the DSM5 you'll see the only behavioral addiction disorder is "gambling disorder" and that's grandfathered in.
Not even implicitly like with cigarettes being addictive. The stimuli we perceive through screens are in no way addictive.Ĭonflating a normal stimuli with something that's actually addictive is more dangerous than the thing it intends to stop because it justifies the use of force in a situation where there's no force used. Nicotine is physiologically addictive in the "directly screws with reward motivation" sense in addition to causing physiological dependence through adaptation.
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