These are exactly the harmful and dangerous consequences of the social memes going around with delusions that 'screens' are harmful and that somehow multi-media from screens, despite not having any mechanism to directly alter incentive salience in any way, is just like addictive incentive salience altering drugs like cocaine.
When you use phrases like "internet addiction" "social media addiction" and the like these are the government uses of force you are supporting.
The judge asking for concrete evidence of these harms and them being unable to provide them, or even a hint of them probably won't change people's perceptions. Just look in this very comment thread for those ignoring the fact the entire article is about lack of proof of harms.
Because of this delusional grassroots support of the concept the authoritarian governments will just keep throwing this scientifically unsupported feces against the wall till it sticks. There's big money in the treatment camps (the anti-gay conversion camp people's new scam), etc, and big potential in the censorship and control of information.
We throw around terms like this because we see a very real effect even though we do not know all the details.
Worst is probably the feedback system. The social media is optimized to show you things it thinks you will look at. More of what you're interested in on the surface sounds like a good thing, but it ends up very able to lead people down rabbit holes.
Do not take this as supporting what Texas is trying to do, though--this isn't about harm, this is about exposing opposition.
When you use phrases like "internet addiction" "social media addiction" and the like these are the government uses of force you are supporting.
The judge asking for concrete evidence of these harms and them being unable to provide them, or even a hint of them probably won't change people's perceptions. Just look in this very comment thread for those ignoring the fact the entire article is about lack of proof of harms.
Because of this delusional grassroots support of the concept the authoritarian governments will just keep throwing this scientifically unsupported feces against the wall till it sticks. There's big money in the treatment camps (the anti-gay conversion camp people's new scam), etc, and big potential in the censorship and control of information.