> When a true heroin addict shoots up, is that completely voluntary or completely involuntary? Probably neither.
The heroin addict doesn't get to blame someone else for their choices; it's a bit like jumping from a building - it's not voluntary to be falling (i.e. being subject to gravity). You had a choice to not jump from the building.
The mitigation is to turn the parachute on your back on, so _continuing_ to be falling is voluntary.
So, in the moment, it may not be voluntary - but in the long term, it certainly is. And the _responsibility_, that most certainly lies with the user in this case.
> but that doesn't mean these large companies aren't still doing the sneaky things that we know they are
It's not like they're hiding anything from the user so it's not sneaky at all. The effects of social media are pretty public on the Internet.
And what are they doing, exactly? Responding to HTTP requests over the network and serving content as the user requests them via algorithms.
Not much different than any other addictive thing in life. Sure, you can try to compare the addictiveness, but it's still just a spectrum.
The heroin addict doesn't get to blame someone else for their choices; it's a bit like jumping from a building - it's not voluntary to be falling (i.e. being subject to gravity). You had a choice to not jump from the building.
The mitigation is to turn the parachute on your back on, so _continuing_ to be falling is voluntary.
So, in the moment, it may not be voluntary - but in the long term, it certainly is. And the _responsibility_, that most certainly lies with the user in this case.
> but that doesn't mean these large companies aren't still doing the sneaky things that we know they are
It's not like they're hiding anything from the user so it's not sneaky at all. The effects of social media are pretty public on the Internet.
And what are they doing, exactly? Responding to HTTP requests over the network and serving content as the user requests them via algorithms.
Not much different than any other addictive thing in life. Sure, you can try to compare the addictiveness, but it's still just a spectrum.