Guidance comes after calls for a total ban for under-16s and a statuary ban on mobile phone use in schools
  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    6 months ago

    Yes, don’t do it. It’s a bad idea. Phones are addicting and one day when we all realize this, we will have laws to prevent it.

    • omarfw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      Because all of our current laws work so well at preventing access to addictive things. /s

        • omarfw@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          If anyone in the future ends up going to prison or losing custody of their children because they bought them a cellphone or let them use social media, we will have officially failed as a society. That is dystopian as all hell.

          It is not the government’s place to parent people’s children for them, much less the dysfunctional government we have.