Sherry Turkle doesn't write satire, so now I think we have agreed on the genre you're in. It is now a genre; what the platforms want is to delay the argument over causation for at least as long as the tobacco companies did. The situation is actually murkier than theirs was. And by the time the argument has come to the conclusion you propound (and with which I pretty much agree) the platforms will have lodged themselves so deeply in the educational systems that it will be impossible for the human race to educate its children without them.

In that context, focusing on personal well-being may be subsidiary to the larger public health questions: Sherry may not have expected in 2012 that a decade after Alone Together the US Surgeon General would see an epidemic of loneliness as our greatest public health challenge. It's a reflection of the profound depth of her insight. The present draft's strength is in the immediacy of its grasp of the personal. If it can be equally tersely welded to a view of the social, something great would result.