Campaign to bar under-14s from having smartphones signed by 100,000 parents (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

I am more worried about how this would be enforced. I've heard that China forces the major mobile games to scan the user's face once in a while, which would be horrifying in a similar scenario, especially applied to everything, not just games.

Having social media not be soft-required for school would be awesome though. I hated having to be on VKontakte as a kid and hate having to be on Telegram now.

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