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If someone does not want to own a smartphone or does not let his kid own or even if he does not want to look or talk on one, it’s okay! but to protest against a store owner that sells them?!?!

we, as the ‘real’ “True Torah Jews” know that we have to follow the Laws of The Torah, is their any Halachic justification for making violent or even non-violent protest & to humiliate another fellow Jew?! and all of this just because ‘you’ (not the Torah) are not overly excited with his business??

Is this not an explicit verse in the Torah? In Vayikra – Leviticus 19;17 it says לא תשנא את אחיך בלבבך הוכח תוכיח את עמיתך ולא תשא עליו חטא which means: You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your fellow, but you shall not bear a sin on his account. And as Rashi explains, the meaning of “but You shall not bear a sin on his account” is: I.e., [in the course of your rebuking your fellow,] do not embarrass him in public. — [Torath Kohanim 19:43; Arachin 16b]

was there at all any backing for this???!!!

if the use of smartphones is SOOO bad (in their eyes) and one who sells them has the din of M’sei’ahya Liyaday Ovrei Aveirah (one who helps out sinners) [which according to Halacha it is almost unacceptable to apply this rule in such a case, but whatever… let’s say…] then perhaps instead of protesting they shall do what the Torah says

in Rambam De’ot chapter six it says the following:
A person who lives in a place where the norms of behavior are evil and the inhabitants do not follow the straight path, should move to a place where the people are righteous and follow the ways of the good.

If all the places with which he is familiar and of which he hears reports follow improper paths, if he is unable to move to a place where the patterns of behavior are proper, because of health reasons, he should remain alone in seclusion as [Eichah 3:28] states: “Let him sit alone and be silent.”

If they are wicked and sinful and do not allow him to reside there unless he mingle with them and follow their evil behavior, he should go out to caves, thickets, and deserts [rather than] follow the paths of sinners as [Jeremiah 9:1] states: “Who will give me a lodging place for wayfarers, in the desert.”