The website uses pages instead of infinite scrolling. I guess that's compliant then.

I think the thought is, it's not a bad thing if you get annoyed after scrolling through 100 of something and having to click next. It's like that lady that comes up on TikTok and says why the fuck are you still scrolling? Touch grass, maybe.

I basically agree with you. You can't really ban dark patterns even though we all agree they suck. Legislature is the worst group of people to design UX.

I don't don't think this is useful at all, if it only results in a next button occasionally popping up.

It’s also used in healthier ways, like search results, chat logs, and so on.

That's an excellent point. Viewing a log file over the web, particularly when it's still growing, absolutely needs infinite scrolling. The Old Way is UX poison.

Is RedHat the company in on this? Is it because they can't figure out how to scroll text well in their AAP/Tower/whatever platform and are annoyed with people chanting YOU HAD ONE JOB at them? (no need to look it up -- that entire Tower product and the tech behind it would be hot garbage 20 years ago and is hot garbage now, so I'm just dunking on them)

How about "Webpage with 'about us' and other informing links converted to infinite scrolling, leaving those links at the end of infinity"?

Highly educated people can be addicted to gambling tactics too

What-about-ism.

Why should people looking at social media addiction look at the education system?

In what world is it a choice between the two?

Yes, it could be better. But its also parents who need to get their shit together. I know so many who park their kids in front of tablet, phone or pc - not for a breather or a short distraction, but as the standard way to entertain kids.

Because they fear that the kids might be bored. But boredom is good, it gets creative juices flowing. However, you have to be hard and tell nagging kids no, and that is hard

If kids have been inducted to immediately get a phone whenever they whine a bit, there is not much school can do.

Is it still like this?

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-public-schools-in-your-country-are-designed-to-make-kids-docile-obedient-workers-for-the-upper-class/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

The EU does not oversee education, it's usually a member state or even lower level responsibility.

such measures are much simpler than fixing the current education system

it's harm reduction while we also work to build a tolerance to the drug ... through learning and reasoning.

The problems are interconnected and should both be addressed. If this is a sore spot for you then you might want to consider your own scrolling habits...

So, sans much context (short of a quick read on Wikipedia on the Telecommunications Act of 1996), this honestly looks like naive libertarianism, and reads like an obnoxious manifesto. Feels appropriate for the attitude of the 90s, I suppose – from what I know, there was a lot more belief in the internet as a frontier of freedom and justice, then – but it's not so fitting these days. Many of the internet's ills have spawned from an environment of shockingly little regulation, and I'd argue the all-too-common "move fast and break things" paradigm devolved into existence from that, too. Yet this appears to be rebuffing regulation writ large, in some misguided belief that the internet was perfectly fine how it was, would continue to be so forever, and that no positive government intervention was possible — rather than the reality that the internet was flawed, at risk, and that good law was possible if only a state had been willing to pursue such a thing. ^1^

Which isn't to say that a low- or even zero-regulation environment can't work. But it needs specific alternatives; you can't just not fix something. And infinite scroll is definitely a something, here. It absolutely contributes to creating an addictive environment while rarely being used for anything good. Personally, even if this letter had aged well, I don't think this would be an appropriate time to reference it.

^1.^ ^Some^ ^of^ ^which^ ^was^ ^passed^ ^in^ ^the^ ^very^ ^law^ ^this^ ^article^ ^so^ ^hates!^ ^Section^ ^230^ ^comes^ ^from^ ^the^ ^TCA!^