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Imagine if this was done around the world. And then imagine how empty the Internet would be.
You don't need to ban kids from the Internet. You need to ban pedophiles from it.
I strongly disagree.
Social media is terrible for mental health especially for the youth. Phones and tablets help in some areas like motor control development but also hurt other places like attention deficiencies and critical thinking, and very rarely does it lead to a kid learning how technology works (that's usually from the computer nerds, aka kids who want a computer, doesn't happen even close to the same rate as smart phones.
Smart phones make people dumb. That's my opinion. But the above are scientifically backed.
Then parents need to stop using such things as babysitters.
And parents also need to get up in arms about lazy "educators" using tech to make their job easier (instead of making learning more effective, which is the bullshit argument that's always used).
Parenting is harder than ever, so I don't blame parents.
Back in the day you would have the mother home all the time, even more recently there was still a strong community in most places and big families meant lots of babysitters.
Nowadays it's fend for yourself for everybody almost everywhere, so raising a kid properly is almost impossible unless you are rich or have a lot of free time.
While I can see your point I would like to point out that that might excuse problems parents have raising their children but not parents making that everyone else's problem by insisting the rest of the world is made child-safe somehow.