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Recant@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?

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Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?

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Recant@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago
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Many experts around the world say smartphones pose a danger to children’s mental health, but does a ban work?
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    It’s disappointing but not surprising to see so many people (on lemmy) willing to violently control children and their access to tech, information, etc.

    • https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online
    • https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors
    • https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/schools-and-edtech-need-study-student-privacy-year-review-2022

    It’s pretty telling when people don’t want to do anything about the many other much bigger causes of psychological harm. Where’s the law that stops cops from harassing minority youth? Yeah right.

    Peeps are literally upvoting Ron DeSantis. Fascism is not the goal here. Wake up, y’all.

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      Christ almighty, that was dramatic.

      Not being able to use your cell phone for the duration of the school day is fascism.

      Fascinating.

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      You don’t have kids huh?

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      Just to counterbalance some of the disagreement replies you’ve got - I agree with you, it’s scary how many people are happy to be ageist, even when they’re so progressive on other forms of equality. If you can control people based on how long they’ve been alive, that’s very dangerous in several ways, both to the people who’s autonomy is being stolen, and to others who it sets a precedent for.

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