Tobacco clearly kills you (and people around), ruins you and make you stink like pile of old crap. We still allow it, but regulate it heavily since bad effects are out there, everywhere. TBH I don't mind some regulation on too-powerful social media, they've enjoyed their free pass for way too long and so far they definitely didn't make the world a better place, in contrary.
“I see you explaining why x is difficult for most people, but I don’t struggle with it so the difficulty is invalid.”
I find these two examples particularly interesting because the regulations have done absolutely nothing. Heroin has never been more popular or more regulated. Tobacco is lightly regulated and the declines in usage are almost completely attributed to campaigns against smoking, not the regulations themselves.
Uninstall social media from your phone, delete your social media accounts, put your phone in a box when you get home, etc, etc, etc.
These “problems” are trivially easy for an individual to solve. They are so easy to solve that I disagree with the basic premise that we even have a problem.
I think we could rewrite this article from the perspective of any generation. Just replace the phone with whatever hysteria was happening in that era. Music, video games, comics, or whatever.
The author of this article seems to just throw her hands up without having tried even a single thing.
“No, I cannot manage my own behavior. It is society that must change!”