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Banning things is rarely 'simple'. What is a smartphone? Any computer capable of connecting to a cellular network? Is an iPod touch a smartphone? Would forc

Banning things is rarely 'simple'. What is a smartphone? Any computer capable of connecting to a cellular network? Is an iPod touch a smartphone? Would forcing everyone onto WiFi really change much? Is an iPod touch with a Bluetooth 5G modem a smartphone? Then what? Banning battery-powered computers? You've basically destroyed the economy with how many businesses rely on laptops and tablets these days. Ban the form-factor? Is the PS Vita a smartphone? Ban the operating systems? The architectures? Is a cellular Windows x86 Microsoft Surface a smartphone? Is an Apple Watch a smartphone?

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago
Lets play some yes/no "is it a smartphone" games. Computer with cell modem: no. iPod touch: yes (AFAIK). Changing cell to wifi: no change. iPod touch with modem: yes (AFAIK). Battery powered computers: no. Vita: no (AFAIK). Operating systems: yes. CPU arches: no. x86 Surface: yes (AFAIK). Smartwatch: do they have their own networking? It is a smartphone if it has wireless networking and is battery powered. A desktop on wifi or cell is not. A laptop on ethernet is not. A laptop on wifi or cell is. It is the combination of portability and networking that is the problem. Cyberspace is supposed to be separate from meatspace not something that follows you around in your pocket and constantly cries for attention. Unfortunately too many normies have eroded that boundary through the use of the smartphone. That shitty device is the cause or amplifier of many societal ills. I know that isn't quite good enough to be law. USB cell modems wouldn't be banned neither would laptops with USB ports but if you plug one into the other does it become a banned device? I don't have an answer for that. I cannot picture someone using a laptop for many of the ills I see coming from smartphones but they only need to be made smaller and smaller until they are. Possibly the cellphone might be just as bad, due to its constant connectivity, but we progressed too quickly from cheap devices available to nearly everyone to the smartphone. Perhaps some form of user interface is needed too because a sensing device plugged into a battery powered SBC transmitting data over some sort of wireless network is not a smartphone.

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago

Lets play some yes/no "is it a smartphone" games. Computer with cell modem: no. iPod touch: yes (AFAIK). Changing cell to wifi: no change. iPod touch with modem: yes (AFAIK). Battery powered computers: no. Vita: no (AFAIK). Operating systems: yes. CPU arches: no. x86 Surface: yes (AFAIK). Smartwatch: do they have their own networking? It is a smartphone if it has wireless networking and is battery powered. A desktop on wifi or cell is not. A laptop on ethernet is not. A laptop on wifi or cell is. It is the combination of portability and networking that is the problem. Cyberspace is supposed to be separate from meatspace not something that follows you around in your pocket and constantly cries for attention. Unfortunately too many normies have eroded that boundary through the use of the smartphone. That shitty device is the cause or amplifier of many societal ills. I know that isn't quite good enough to be law. USB cell modems wouldn't be banned neither would laptops with USB ports but if you plug one into the other does it become a banned device? I don't have an answer for that. I cannot picture someone using a laptop for many of the ills I see coming from smartphones but they only need to be made smaller and smaller until they are. Possibly the cellphone might be just as bad, due to its constant connectivity, but we progressed too quickly from cheap devices available to nearly everyone to the smartphone. Perhaps some form of user interface is needed too because a sensing device plugged into a battery powered SBC transmitting data over some sort of wireless network is not a smartphone.