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June 26, 2024 – Dr. Anna Lembke, medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University, explains how constant connection can be harmful and why governments, companies and families should consider policies that promote unplugging. We need to think about the addictive potential of digital media, social media, the products are engineered to be addictive.
Uh whether it’s the A I algorithms or it’s the notifications or quantifications for the endless scroll.
All of these things make it more and more difficult for us to exercise our agency to disengage at the point at which it would be healthy to do so, especially Children and teens whose brains are not yet fully developed.
And so yes, the corporations that have created a product that is profitable because it’s addictive, have an obligation especially vis a vis minors to make sure that they are not being harmed.
