[rbanffy]

> What people don’t need is someone dictating to them how they should relax after work.

Nobody dictates that. What we do is to suggest there might be more rewarding things to do with their time off than watching TV between the dopamine hits from TikTok

[hnlmorg]

Which is ostensibly the same thing

[rbanffy]

You are not forced to comply with the suggestion.

[hnlmorg]

If you must argue semantics, then…

Not physically forced, but that doesn’t mean the comments weren’t said in a way that might appear forceful to other people due to the combination of bluntness and lack of compassion.

For something to be dictated, you don’t have to be in a position to enforce those comments.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dictate