Post Apnt6eSjWOXyuYQuHo by lxo@gnusocial.jp
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 (DIR) Post #ApmAr7FS8ekQPk2jCq by pezmico@mastodon.nz
       2025-01-04T09:37:29Z
       
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       I don't necessarily disagree that phones might be harmful for kids' development.I just don't know if they're nearly as harmful as say, repeated covid infections, a collapsing biosphere, a justifiably bleak vision of their future, or even a prevalent lack of agency, independence, and spaces for socialisation.I'd focus on those first. Then phones.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApmArFNBvlgvc3j1NY by pezmico@mastodon.nz
       2025-01-04T09:55:54Z
       
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       "WE NEED TO PROTECT THE BRAINS OF OUR PRECIOUS CHILDREN!"-By making it so they don't repeatedly catch a neurologically damaging infection twice a year by just attending school?"LOL NO. IT'S THE PHONES, OBVIOUSLY! TAKE THEM AWAY!"
       
 (DIR) Post #ApmMmybTXL6ptW8WWW by janisf@mstdn.social
       2025-01-05T17:34:57Z
       
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       @pezmico But if we take away the window to the shitstorm world, our kids can stay in our windowless McMansion enjoying the same wealth-supported ignorance we do.What. We turned out OK.  We're good parents. We worked hard to provide.  Their C-PTSD *can't* be us.(/s)
       
 (DIR) Post #ApmMzyd6kZKHjz6Cy8 by LudditeMan@poa.st
       2025-01-05T17:43:46.057369Z
       
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       @pezmico How about just getting the childhood scabies epidemic under control? Or is than anti-immigration?
       
 (DIR) Post #Apnt6eSjWOXyuYQuHo by lxo@gnusocial.jp
       2025-01-05T18:51:37Z
       
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       that's a false dichotomy, I'm afraidas much as surveillance capitalism wants you to think there are only these two choices, nothing would stop kids (or anyone else, for that matter) from participating in society without a remotely-controlled tracking device packed with attention grabbers, but rather with a communication device that served its users
       
 (DIR) Post #Apu7iZD3a3o8ibf0d6 by dragonsidedd@sciencemastodon.com
       2025-01-06T12:12:12Z
       
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       @dalias @pezmico I cannot seem to find a way in which libraries provide a portal to track a child's every move 24x7, build a profile of them, and specifically manipulate their political and economic life
       
 (DIR) Post #Apu7ia74DobvWJrjvs by lxo@gnusocial.jp
       2025-01-08T18:29:10Z
       
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       DRMed books are the way libraries are being forced to provided that portal, alas