Yeah, sure; it’s a mostly great article otherwise. But it shows that the person can’t make a point without tying it to the whole of their other personal political view. But if you want to convince people, you want to compartmentalize as much as possible. Make the case in isolation. If you tie the smartphone problem to left/right politics (whichever side you’d pick), you politicize the issue, and thereby guarantee that ~50% of the public will be against whatever point you are trying to make.