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This is such a naive take. I assume you don't have kids or teens?

Children don't exist in a neat subservient bubble. They have peers, social pressures, see advertising, consume television and movies.

Our kid's school had everyone buy an iPad. Already, at pre-phone age, so much socialisation has moved into the digital space. FaceTime, iMessage, Roblox, etc.

I was going to say banning phones would be like a kid in the 80s without television. But really it would be like being a kid in the 80s who wasn't allowed to have a TV, listen to the radio, have a phone line, and wasn't allowed to socialise outside of school.



Actually, TV was severely limited as were video games. We were told to go outside and not come back until it was getting dark.




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