Battling anything is built of two parts, making it immoral, and making it illegal. Making it illegal makes it easier to argue that it's immoral, because many people take cues for their morality from legality, but if you want to keep it illegal you have to maintain the cultural belief in its immorality. Each reinforces the other.

There is no other economic system.

If lemmy.ml could read this, they'd be very upset.

classic lemmy

Hey David, can you guess how many people are reading your article from a smartphone? Convenient, isn't it.

Want to complain about smartphones? Write a book... or something that can be published on fucking paper.

Me who has a disability which prevents me from speaking and hearing people and renders me bedridden.

“Okay, guess I’ll die then”

No. Smartphones convicted the murderer of George Floyd. Smartphones have shown to the world the police brutality that happens at peaceful protests. Technology isn't inherently evil, it's how its used.

Illegal? What jurisdiction? There are tons of Lineage OS users and I haven't heard of anyone getting arrested for using them.

Idk, Smartphones under Feudalism can be just as bad, if not worse.

Ban life.

The rise of fascists isn't your problem? Believe it or not, they'd never be this strong if it weren't for brainwashing the masses via smartphones.

Pocket PCs were a thing. I loved them.

We had the same propaganda with books, radio, and TV. Should we ban those things too?

If USA banned guns, they might have a few less shootings.

Is Jacobin just garbage or am I just seeing only garbage articles?

Ehhhh no.

I can get behind "ban spying on me."

I can even get behind "ban social media, especially the kind that makes you sell yourself, though pseudononymous link aggregators are less the issue."

But "no more torrenting at work, no more reading digitally while pooping, no more encrypted chats, now have to carry a book, a camera, an mp3 player, my GBC, and a dumb phone, just to make up for the phone?"

No.

Perhaps the actual answer is for people to learn self control.

I'm just saying, that it is a problem and unless you're fascist yourself, it is also your problem. Banning phones is ridiculous and will never go through anyway.

By the way, the internet is a billion times more efficient in spreading propaganda than anything we've ever seen before. Something needs to be done. Banning phones is not the solution though.

That will never work, nobody has discipline anymore

Smart phones are just pocket computers. Up to you how their used, good evil neutral it's all at ur fingertips.