“We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”

Meta has settled in a lawsuit alleging its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, were designed to be addictive to kids. Smartphones are not a morally good or morally bad thing – they are a morally neutral tool, and it is up to us to decide how we use them. But we must be cautious with a device that has the potential for so much misuse, lest we be unable to break free of the digital leash.…