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> That said, a better approach would be to limit kids under certain age from owning smartphones with full internet access. Instead, they could have a phone with
by theshackleford 1y ago
> That said, a better approach would be to limit kids under certain age from owning smartphones with full internet access. Instead, they could have a phone without internet access—dumb phones—or ones with curated/limited access.
This would be completely and utterly unenforceable in any capacity. Budget smartphones are cheap enough and ubiquitious enough that children don't need your permission or help to get one. Just as I didnt need my parents assistance to have three different mobile phones in high school when as far as they knew, I had zero phones.
- account42 1y agoWhich is of course why we don't bother making selling cigarettes and alcohol to children illegal. Except we totally do that because it largely works even if sufficiently motivated individuals can and do get around the restrictions.
- theshackleford 1y agoCigarettes and alcohol are consumbable products that must be acquired again and again. There are already millions of phones in open circulation and you only need to acquire it once. Even if you could stop phones, you wont stop them from accessing it from literally a near infinite supply of other devices. It's pure and utter fantasy.