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> This seems like a great idea. If all the kids are offline, there is much less peer pressure to be online. As I read it it's not about transforming kids into
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
> This seems like a great idea. If all the kids are offline, there is much less peer pressure to be online.
As I read it it's not about transforming kids into luddite. I don't see where it's explained that, say, a 10 years old cannot play Fortnite at home or that a 8 y/o cannot play Animal Crossing on the Nintendo Switch.
It's specifically about preventing kids from wasting their lives on that inferior piece of mediocre turd that a smartphone is.
- canadianfella 3y ago[dead]
- 6D794163636F756 3y agoYes, but the key takeaway from what you quoted is that they are creating an equal space where all kids are equally offline. The argument very much is not that all tech is bad, just that you should probably not give unfettered access to the internet to someone who's brain isn't fully formed