Whoever wrote this, I find them incredibly unsympathetic.

Some people have the desire to gamble their lives away, to take on extreme amounts of debt and then die in despair.

Same goes for alcoholism.

Same goes for ponzi schemes.

We don't ban alcohol because bans of it drive organized crime.

On media consumption apps the west blocks children from seeing porn, adults from seeing snuff films, adults from seeing how to make a bomb.

I don't think I believe anyone who claims to stand on these things on principle unless they are also pro right to repair and pro open source. I won't believe you are advocating for freedom if you only ever argue for exploitative extraction of resources via preying on human frailty.

And personally I think we should ban skinners box algorithms from being the default on any app.

We explicitly make apps to be as lazy as possible to use by people and low IQ people or obsessive people with poor impulse control and to extract as much of their money and attention as possible, and behind closed door and in full view tech is very explicit about this.

Separately, some people are destructive idiot or do idiot things, they do actual damage to our society and make everyone have less resources, breaking windows, burning money, living in "maladaptive fantasy", etc.

These types of very simple arguments about human nature and freedom as a virtue coming from someone openly bragging about running exploits against human nature seems like a wolf bemoaning the sheep dog.