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I doubt what they are doing is causing more harm than opportunity cost. The things they mentioned help in the short term. While internet addiction is still in contention there already are empirically tested treatments that can do a lot better than what they talked about in the article.

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But the real goal isn't preventing internet addiction, this is just a part of the campaign to control internet in South Korea to shape political opinion.

Read up on KSCS and the internet censorship there.

Wow, TIL. I knew South Korea had some internet censorship, but it definitely is a lot higher than I thought. That changes the context of the article a lot!

Yea, South Korea's control of the internet seems almost dystopian at times.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/south-korea-only-thing... There are more articles on the eff about it.

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