Ika MakimakiJan 4, 2025

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.

Show threadCassandrichJan 5, 2025
@pezmico Phones are about as harmful to kids' development as libraries are.
Show threadDragon-sided DJan 6, 2025
@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
Show threadCassandrich
@dragonsidedd @pezmico You're buying into adtech's marketing propaganda. The edtech companies that have infested the schools know more about kids than any garbage installed on a phone does.
Jan 6, 2025 at 12:27pmWeb
Show threadDragon-sided DJan 6, 2025

@dalias @pezmico I would argue the same is true of the governments that maintain enforced monopolies on those schools.

Unpopular opinion, I know, but FWIW one that was shared by the late Steve Jobs