"Unwinding Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms would only create more, separate echo chambers from which people get their 'curated' news."

These companies need to prioritize the protection of online communities from incitement to far-right extremist violence, to deliver effective moderation, and to prevent the abuse of their platforms.

Twitter and Amazon may be hypocritical, but whom to do business with is up to them.

"As with most things, the key to saving ourselves from tech addiction is balance."

Tech companies and other digital advocates typically resist regulation by saying they’re standing up for freedom of speech. But they’ve been pushing a warped version of the idea.

Facebook, Google, and Twitter currently pose a danger to democracy. The government must break up the big companies, and philanthropies and public agencies should invest in new online public squares.

Can new low-tech devices save us from ourselves, or will it take something more?

This is a path back to sanity from the toxic shattering of reality that Facebook, Twitter, and Google have visited upon us.

A recent Ideas piece on developing truly green technologies stirred reminders of the impact we can make right in our midst.

The seeds of truly green technologies are being planted now.