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iPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android'
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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Why not just make it so nobody under 18 can own a smartphone. Why these fucking useless age checks.
Me using an android as a child taught me how to use linux, command line etc. seems arbitrary to deny the phone entirely. maybe certain online services should be though
So you where under 12, when you learned how to use Linux? Its either that or you where actually a teenager not a child.
But in general I do agree with controls set on children, locally by the parents that is - excluding teenagers.
Surveillance.
Exactly, children and teenagers are meere tools.
Rhetorical questions aside. Let's not counteract a dystopia with another dystopa here.
This. Smart watches exist. Kids don't need smartphones.
If you grow up one of the tiny % of kids that grow up without one, it will result in some developmental disadvantages I think. On the other hand, modern social media will impose another set of disadvantages, but fact is that social media and the internet in general are a large part of modern society, so not being able to interface with it until you're 18 will leave you behind a learning curve.
Actual studies say that kids that use phones and laptops are actually less intelligent. I think no phones until 18 would be doable. No laptops would be hard though.
Someone who didn't touch a phone until 18 is going to be so susceptible to scams, catfishes, propaganda, digital manipulation, etc, that I definitely think it is a dangerous nuclear option. Controlled, monitored by good parents, layered introduction is definitely better in my opinion.