fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhoodwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square195fedilinkarrow-up1470arrow-down118
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minus-squaremellowheat@suppo.filinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·8 months agoPerhaps we can imagine a society where nobody had thought of banning handguns for children. But you can just not buy your own kid a handgun if it’s so important to you.
minus-squareDeadlineX@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoYeah I remember that story about those kids killing an entire school with their smartphone. That’s definitely not a flash equivalency at all. Remember when video games were making kids kill each other? Because when I was a kid, that’s what people were trying to ban instead of smartphones.
Perhaps we can imagine a society where nobody had thought of banning handguns for children. But you can just not buy your own kid a handgun if it’s so important to you.
Yeah I remember that story about those kids killing an entire school with their smartphone.
That’s definitely not a flash equivalency at all.
Remember when video games were making kids kill each other? Because when I was a kid, that’s what people were trying to ban instead of smartphones.