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Link to originalAnthony Bucci commented: “I don’t like framing problems like these as ‘addiction.’ In my opinion that is too close to victim blaming and depoliticizing. It removes attention from the companies that are deliberately creating and deploying technology they know to be dangerous, and it takes pressure off the regulators who are failing to reign it in. Just like we aren’t going to solve the climate crisis through individual behavior like changing lightbulbs, we aren’t going to solve a nationwide loneliness crisis by referring to the worst affected as ‘addicts’ and directing them towards treatment.”