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Campaign to bar under-14s from having smartphones signed by 100,000 parents (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Luckily they're not banning tablets or laptops or tethering or even WiFi. Early teens should figure all that out in a jiffy.

[–] sga 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

problem is, among the items you enumerated, phones (usually) are the cheapest (not comparing flagship phones here, you can get good-ish entry level phone at 150-200 USD (I use one) and goodish laptops start around 300 (and even then it is mostly underpowered chrmoebooks, many of of which are not good), tablets (entry level) start at about the same prize of phones, but for a given prize, you would get other specs lower (they have to cut cost somewhwere, and larger screen costs more). Now, these tablets can serve as a carrier for information, but that would not be the most ideal solution.

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also, everything requires a phone number, and everyone just talks using whatsapp or some other phone-only application. You cant expect them to keep in touch without one.

[–] sga 2 points 5 days ago

Even though I would very much like for this to change, this is true, having a phone number is very important