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Campaign to bar under-14s from having smartphones signed by 100,000 parents (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

That's up to the parents to do. Not up to the government to do. That's not the government's job. That's the parents' job. I do agree that devices shouldn't be added to the school's curriculum until later, instead of at kinder as it is now. But legally banning phones for <14 is offloading responsibility to an entity that should never have that responsibility.