It's like working for your mom.

Ford was paying more money to employees who were more conformist to his standard of ideal living.

To the hyper individualistic culture like USA today this can only seem bad but this is Japan with factory towns [1] and generally more collectivist culture.

This also need not be bad. Clean and simple lifestyles could make many more people healthier and happier compared to constant analysis-paralysis state of choice. One could even say that this company is morally better than other companies due to promoting a lifestyle which makes people happier in the long term.

[1] https://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75ye...

It's none of their damned business what legal activities their employees engage in at home.

You may laugh at it, but the internet really is a series of tubes

Good luck with that! Seriously it's none of their business.

smoke breaks are like 75% of a salarimans working day, what are they supposed to do with that time now

Among other things, they are doing this to prevent second-hand smoking. I guess those carcinogens can travel through cyberspace.