Stop children using smartphones until they are 13, says French report

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[–]xoenix 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I think devices with wide-open internet/social media access should be restricted to adults like alcohol.

There would be a market for kid devices, with limited phone, text, maps functionality and educational content. The problem is they'll put queer propaganda in them.

[–]HiddenFox 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've seen several articales and people talking about something similar to this. Just a week or so ago Joe Rogan had someone on who was saying this. They made a good point about kids being allowed to have a flip phone but no smart phone.

He also talked about how in real world studies kids reported being happier without a smart phone so long as everyone in their school/ social circle was subject to the same rules. (IE no fear of missing out)

I hope they go though with some kind of ban for minors.

[–]SMCAB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can't ban anything, never allow anything that can grease up the slippery slope. Like anything else, they just need parents.

[–]package 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Stop minors from being on the internet at all. Fully unplugged from everything until they're 18.

[–]Gravi 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ha, I agree, kids nowadays are seeing so much oversexualised shit, it's horrid, I enter vrchat and all I see and hear is kids doing the most horrid things.

[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

13 is a bit early. I'd go with 17.

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh yeah, because that's what I want, for my kid to be technologically retarded at the point he hits 13.

You may as well tell me to stop him from reading until he's 13.

[–]carn0ld03 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt."

— Juvenal, "Satires" 127 AD

"The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death', to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power."

— Chris Hedges, Interview with David Barsamian, July 14, 2011

They need to keep everyone distracted by any means necessary, which should make the more inquisitive curious as to why.