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@@ -227,4 +227,26 @@
     little as possible of your own data on the platform.</p>
 
+<h4 id="nonfree-software">Nonfree smartphone software</h4>
+
+ <p>Parents are very concerned about the <a
+    
href="https://www.freerangekids.com/worried-your-child-is-already-a-screen-addict-theres-hope/";>
+    intentional addictiveness of the software that their children use on
+    snoop-phones</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The &ldquo;<a
+    
href="https://www.nysun.com/article/how-manipulative-tech-a-mashup-of-psychology-and-technology-keeps-children-glued-to-screens";>manipulative
+    tech</a>,&rdquo; which underpins addictive features that the
+    article naively attributes to &ldquo;screens,&rdquo; is in fact implemented
+    by software: partly in the operating system and partly in some apps.
+    These features can be designed to do nasty things because they are <a
+    href="https://fsf.org/tedx";>nonfree software</a>: their code is
+    controlled by some &ldquo;owner,&rdquo; in this case a powerful
+    company, rather than by the users.  If they were free programs, the
+    user community could reprogram them so as to be less addictive.</p>
+
+ <p>By freeing ourselves from these companies' power to require use of
+    software they control for accessing their &ldquo;services,&rdquo; we
+    will also reduce the harm that online dis-services can do.</p>
+
 
 <h3 id="proprietary-addictions">Examples of addictive software</h3>
@@ -398,5 +420,5 @@
      Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
 
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Free Software Foundation, 
Inc.</p>
 
 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
@@ -408,5 +430,5 @@
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2022/11/12 20:56:29 $
+$Date: 2023/05/15 14:49:57 $
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 </p>