On: UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s

[cromka]

It's also a huge win for children's future and cognition.

Both of these things can be true. We need to figure out how to navigate this new reality and no action was getting really dangerous.

[budududuroiu → cromka]

Parents have the choice of handing smartphones to their children. If cognition and future is that important, surely a parent wouldn't wait for government intervention

[cromka → budududuroiu]

Its no longer an problem you can address on an individual basis. It affects whole communities, classroom as a whole, etc.

[tarkin2 → budududuroiu]

Teach a classroom of comprehensive children and then come back and say parents both want to and are able to control their children all of the time.

[n4r9 → budududuroiu]

Yes, and that choice is far less successful if their children's friends all have smartphones already.