Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood

gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• crapwittyname@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My kid was the last one in their school year to get a smartphone. He was bullied for not having a smartphone. He used to ask me for one several times a day and I stuck to what I’d said, he’ll get one on his birthday. I still feel it was far too early. He was 10 when he got it.

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  • Dra@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You did the right thing. If it was the 1900s and everyone else was to give their child cigarettes, they might get bullied for having no cigarettes, but you know what is best and you stuck with it

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    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also you are not getting bullied because you don’t have cigarettes or smartphones, but because you lack self confidence and are perceived as social weak (your friends and random bystanders would not come to your help).

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      • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, you are getting bullied because humans beings are morons who will jump to bully whoever is perceived as different. Do not blame the victim, for fuck sake.

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      • Dra@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You have completely misunderstood this and are trying to overlay some bizarre Andrew Tate-esque psychobabble to explain your misunderstanding.

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      • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kids can be real shitheads sometimes

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• Steak@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nope. You can’t expect me to raise my own child How dare you!

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• aidan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just like the UK bill wanting an ID for porn sites. And, in the EU, Youtube is wanting my ID for age verification to follow EU law. Isn’t a much less authoritarian solution just to use blocklists, or even mandate sites send an unencrypted flag with content that is “adult” and browsers or routers can choose to deal with that or not.

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  • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like if you don’t want you child to use a smartphone - just don’t buy one for them.

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  • mint_tamas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Youtube never asked for my ID (I’m in the EU). Which country is this?

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They say EU law, and it’s only if I want to watch age restricted videos. But Czech Republic

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• kelargo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Something, something, something, and then BREXIT comes to mind. That worked out well.

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• mellowheat@suppo.fi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like… join a protest demanding a smartphone-free childhood for everybody?

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