• VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You dont need a law for this. If you dont want your kid to use or have a smartphone then dont buy them one.

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      9 months ago

      Honestly I would appreciate if they banned phone manufacturers from forcing Facebook, X, and other bullshit onto your phone. Making people go out and get it is one of the many intended barriers.

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      9 months ago

      If they don’t create a new law then how will these parents impose their parenting on other families?

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      9 months ago

      The question then would be if it might cause other problems. A lot of places are moving to e-learning, for example, and might expect the students to have internet access of some form or other.

      Whether that be in the form of smartphone apps/websites, or through a laptop that the school provides, at which point, it’s basically the same thing, especially if peer pressure puts them on social media or some such.

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        9 months ago

        As I said in another comment if the parents are the ones to buy it then they can put heavy parental controls on the phones or tablets.

        I use a work provided cellphone while I’m on my job site and they have that fucker so locked down I can’t even change the auto lock timing so I know you can lock tons of things with passwords on phones and tablets.

        Idk anything about school laptops because I’m apparently old as fuck now and that wasn’t a thing when I was younger. But I would assume that they also use software to lock those down.