Comment by krapp

>My feeling is that most people are addicted to these apps, not using them for the utility or pleasure they bring.

What if most people aren't addicted to them, and do simply find them useful and entertaining, and the hyperbole and discourse about how dangerous and addictive social media and "algorithms" are is a means to manufacture consent for the government regulating and controlling free speech?

What if it's a bigger problem that all the government has to do is gesture vaguely in the direction of China and many people will just roll over?