"Television is more detrimental to humans than telephone ever was."
"Telephone is more detrimental to humans than radio ever was."
"Radio is more detrimental to humans than telegraph ever was."
"Telephone is more detrimental to humans than radio ever was."
"Radio is more detrimental to humans than telegraph ever was."
I do think a case could be made that the changes in communication driven by the internet actually are different, but it's not the change itself, per se, as much as the speed of change. Pre-internet these changes were generational, and they generally took a generation (or more!) to be fully adopted and integrated into society. Now they're coming every decade or less, sweeping through the world in a matter of years.
A quick Google search will show that they did in fact say these things about the telephone and telegraph
> In 1858, People Said the Telegraph Was 'Too Fast for the Truth'
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/in-18...
> “The telephone is the instrument of the devil”
https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/history/communication/h...