UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s

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• Deebster@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is throwing the baby out with the bath water. The problems aren’t with mobile computing, but with social media and free-to-play games abusing the science of addiction to create psychological dependencies in users (and children are especially vulnerable to this). Even the timing of your notifications can and are used to manipulate you.

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  • flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They need to ban these dopemine toys for adults let alone children

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Recent news suggests that the ones who should be banned from smartphones are MPs.

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  • ReCursing@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Recent news Everything suggests that the ones who should be banned from smartphones are MPs.

    FTFY

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• AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Teaching kids about responsible use of smartphones and social media, and using the available parental controls, is the right way to go about making sure kids are safe.

  Trying to stop kids from getting their hands on smartphones is a laughable policy idea. Social media is ubiquitous with modern day youth, they will find a way to access it one way or another.

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  • xlash123@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That, and regulating how social media companies can operate their platforms to reduce addictive behaviors.

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this some ploy to drum up an excuse for losing the upcoming election?

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  • DrCake@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like they are just chucking any shit policies at the wall to see what sticks

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• lemonflavoured@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not at all enforcable.

  So of course they'll do it.

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• kirbowo808@kbin.melroy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LOL as if that’s gonna stop them from owning smartphones, teenagers don’t even have that much money to even pay for it to begin with cuz they’re school kids, so it’s always the parents that pay for it anyways. This proposed legalisation is literally not going to do anything.

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  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. How many kids do they think are going to the shops alone to buy phones?

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  "You there, with the smartphone! Let’s see some papers and a loicence!

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• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course they are, they’re scared they’re even losing the vote of the “kids these days…” tory core so they’re thrashing about like a fish out of water trying desperately to not lose them… There’s been stories like this for months now and very little to come from most of them

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