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Or how about you legislate for parental controls on Smartphones.
You know, like how any desktop or laptop has them?
How are you going to enforce this law? Because parents will still buy their kids smartphones. Are you going to have the police arresting under 16s and confiscating their phones?
Apple has pretty robust parental controls on their devices.
Source: am technical enough to have set them up.
So does Android.
It's just a moral panic, as usual.
Politicians love moral panic.
I like parents having the option, but I think the better option is to build actual trust with kids, not lock down their stuff and spy on them. Kids will find workarounds, so technical measures are merely a tool that should be used with restraint.
Some laws have little to no thought put into. This is one of them. Not only is this unnecessary but it would create more technological waste.