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Screen time needs to be regulated ?
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this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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The hell are you on about?
Someone who basically just uses their screen to pull up a recipe to make dinner with is not going to have any problems. Similarly for someone who uses it to keep in contact with friends (directly, not via a social network).
Someone who only spends a half hour a day using their phone, but that usage is scrolling on twitter or some bullshit like that? They're absolutely going to have problems. It only takes a few seconds to read a post and then a shitty idea might lodge itself in their head.
Focusing on just screen time rather than the content on it is expressly not focusing on the root cause, and we're not going to fix anything if we focus on just the symptoms. It's like trying to ban hammers because someone is smashing your windows with one. The hammer isn't really the cause of the problem, and the person doing the smashing will continue a different way if they aren't stopped.
Will make TV and mobile phones so expensive that no 9-5 losers and poor people will be able to afford it.
100% The root cause is addictive algorithms and big tech not giving a shit.
One could argue that the fediverse such as lemmy can be addictive (I should really be going to bed rn but here I am), but nowhere near to the same extent as something like facebook or instagram which causes people to be so addicted they seperate themselves from society and social relationships, get driven to suicide, participate in excessive buying due to ads etc...