I find this strange as you probably sitting at computer watching some twitch thing for 10 hours ? young people are spending their time with computerized things for many years already ...
On a 'regular' day I would be spending 8 hours on campus or at an office for an internship. Probably 90% of the people I interacted with on a typical day would share my goals and understand my life. Now it's all online. So the problem is there's no social pressure to do anything related to my long term goals. The time spent on a computer is not really that important
You might like cake. Given the choice, you might like to eat cake every day. Maybe it would even take place of breakfast. But what happens if you're only allowed to eat cake?
freedom of speech is mostly not about the who owns media company etc! its mostly about who owns naming, addressing people,,, if it is not easy to publish anything, own name and ip to share whatever I have then its never possible to be free ( as in free, not in beer[social media deceive people])
wow this is "the" best explanation I have ever heard as an outsider of physics. thank you. actually this made me feel comfortable with the universe and effort explaining it. I think any one who speak about information must use bytes!