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jayjayok
8y ago
Would it be enough to disable/block social media apps, Youtube/Twitch and problematic games? The kid would still have a smartphone but without the addictive stuff.
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jayjayok
8y ago
Fair enough. I was almost going to suggest signal jammers from China or Faraday cage wallpapers but then I remembered that taking the phone away might have done the trick as well ;)
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jayjayok
8y ago
I agree, that this was not the point of the article. Nonetheless if a child doesn't have access to a phone/the internet that child won't have access to all these Skinner boxes and whatnot. I guess the bigger picture I'm
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jayjayok
8y ago
I don't get it. Why did Kelly's parents not just stop paying her phone bills and change the Wifi password? Heck, why not just take the phone away and replace it with a flip-phone? How hard can it be to nip these kinds of issues in