Kids are sad and have problems, people think this is because of cellphones, so they want to take away the kid's cellphones, but maybe kids are sad because of other problems.

See: https://lemmy.world/post/12059331

In general, there's been lots of talk and bills related to regulating social media, a year or two ago it was "ban tik tok", now it's regulate social media and take away kid's cellphones. Lot's of talk about it, lots of time on the evening news about it. Meanwhile, nobody does anything about the big problems and the evening news wont mention them.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (19 children)

Yes kids are sad in part because of their cellphone, online harassment and bullying is worse than it's ever been, it's an issue in classes too and it's one thing that can easily be fixed.

If the news you check don't cover the other issues then change your news sources.

Edit: Funny that you ignored the comments in your link

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Explain how taking a kid's phone away makes them more capable of defending against online harassment. That seems super counterintuitive. If a kid doesn't have a cell phone their bullies can spread whatever rumours they want online and it won't be challenged or reported.

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