Should Children Under 16 Be Barred From Smartphones?

[Khandro]

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/11/28/worldwide-push-to-keep-teens-off-social-media-gains-momentum/

 

[bookbinder]

Yes, if only to get them to devote their time to something more useful.

[tomus42]

If it keeps them away from Breitbart and the like it has to be good.

I don't know how it can be enforced though.

[ToraToraTora]

no, they should be barred from twitface though.

[THECORBYLOON]

The legislation bans under-sixteens from social media websites not from using smartphones.

[tomus42]

How on earth can that be enforced corby?

[douglas9401]

Even the under 16s don't say Twitface.

[THECORBYLOON]

"The bill introduced in the Australian parliament on Thursday provides for developing an age verification system that could use biometrics or government-issued identification cards."

[tomus42]

All of which sounds like unenforceable nonsense corby.

[douglas9401]

For a country that prides itself on its reputation as easy-going and relaxed the don't half like a rule to curb a freedom.

Maybe it's not all tinnies and thongs after all, cobber.

[youngmafbog]

Unenforceable, and even they are spouting using an application that hasnt been written.

//The legislation bans under-sixteens from social media websites not from using smartphones.//

And what exactly do you think most kids use their phones for?