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Alcohol and cigarettes physically harm you. As best I can tell internet access is no more harmful than gaming.

The two classes of risk are too different for the analogy to work.



If Internet access is not harming, then why do Bills like this exist?


Corporations like having less competition by putting up barriers to entry, old media disliked new media which carried over to big tech (and the inter-company PR wars have been brutal) and politicians like being seen to "do something" about whatever problems are in the news.




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