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‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] mellowheat@suppo.fi -1 points 8 months ago

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.

I think the difference here is in scope of the problem. Video games do make the extremely rare case of murderous psychopathy worse, but it affects very few children. Smartphones affect almost everyone and the problems they are causing can be seen in quality of learning data.