[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

Google and apple have helped ruin society by developing the smartphone. They might have occasionally done something useful but I am convinced they are a net detriment. All their products are about surveillance and control. The positive might be them making some tools they use to do that available for others to use.

[brookst]

And after them, let’s get the television. And I read a pretty convincing opinion piece about how the novel is destroying today’s youth (dated 1910 or so).

[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

Nice "gotcha" except TVs or novels are not being pushed by government and corporations as being essential to life in society.