Worried Your Child is Already a Screen Addict? There’s Hope!!!The "pervasive design" addictive features that the article naivelyattributes to "screens" are implemented by software: partly in theoperating system and partly in some apps. They can be designed to donasty things because they are non-free software: their code is controlled by some "owner", in this case a powerfulcompany, rather than by the users. If they were free programs, theuser community could reprogram them so as to be less addictive.We must free ourselves from the idea that giant companies have the "right"to require users' connection to their "services" to go through softwareunder their control. We should have the right to use our free softwareto do that.