> Back in my day we didn't do such dangerous things like creating SuSE or Ubuntu accounts.
> Like everybody else we did harmless things like smoking cigarettes behind the school gym.

I suspect it wasn't your intention but you summarized the current "screen problem" really well: way too many of today's teenagers don't go out and hangout with friends any more. Before schools started to realize the extent of the issue and finally ban phones on school grounds, they had even stopped talking face to face at recess and lunch time. Obviously, the immense majority of them are not actively contributing to open-source or active in any other way. They are just passively donating their brain time to addictive anti-social networks and they have much fewer real-life relationships. Is this the right price to avoid car crashes, drugs, STDs and other risks in real life? Not sure. For sure screen addiction is solving earth overpopulation at an amazing speed. Too fast in fact. Even better for the environment: the richer the country, the faster its births are plummeting.

Of course this is all true for way too many adults too! But adults are in theory supposed to take care of themselves, their brain is not (supposed to be) developing anymore. Also, the majority of adults don't want evil regulations to protect them from themselves and no one cares when they die by the millions. Only children draw tears.

Open-source is just collateral damage and a minuscule rounding error in this much greater "age of consent" debate. Please don't forget that.