100% agree with this from safescreenscampaign. If you have the time, check out my essay on how I think EE have inadvertently exposed themselves and their industry. x.com/guythomasholde…

The cause of this is smartphones. We all know it. Those selling the product know it. If children with anxiety is the "biggest societal issue of our time" when are we going to get off our backsides as a society and change things such as ban for u16s?! theguardian.com/society/articl…

The biggest public health emergency is kids on smartphones. Why does the govt continue to turn a blind eye and instead look at smoking in beer gardens being done by adults?! Because it is easy for them to do this. Not interested in tough decisions that would upset big tech

I detest smoking. It's an awful habit, terrible for your health and I urge anyone to quit. But. At some stage, we have to trust people to make their own decisions. If we banned any harmful habit, we'd be living very boring lives. Where do we draw the line? Alcohol? Unhealthy

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App Store Google Play It should be simple for Apple and Google to enable age-based safety defaults and share age and consent details anonymously with apps in their stores. Instead, Apple hides safety defaults under an obscure “Family Checklist” and refuses to share age and consent info with apps.

It's here in UK already! I thought they'd pilot it first somewhere less economically developed. Maybe already have. Anyhow, it's here. AI pilot. 20 GCSE kids. If they get top grades in 2 years, watch out! Watch out anyway. So many talking points in this. news.sky.com/video/school-i…

With the Grenfell inquiry finally due tomorrow, 7 years later, I thought it timely to reshare my article on how the absence of responsibility and accountability leads to bad outcomes, in this case, children and smartphones, and what to do about that open.substack.com/pub/guythomash…

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"I think it (social media, the internet) is really messing with their minds in a big way" says Blair. But he doesn't know what the answer is! It's DelaySmartphones and Smartphone Free Childhood and in my view legislation too chng.it/ZjHchVYYCW It's not that hard Tony. Or were you

See how he sneakily pivots to use the terrible situation of children and smartphones to support his case for regulation of social media for adults? If he actually cared about kids he would support DelaySmartphones and other movements to protect them from online harm. So cynical!

Let's go one better in the UK and put age limits on smartphones. They are the portal to social media

42 state attorneys general are backing a proposal to label social media platforms with warnings about their potential risks to kids. This push, supported by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, aims to address the mental health concerns linked to social media use among

Great news! A ban like this, apart from being long overdue, is a clear signal to parents - smartphones are not safe for children.

Bigtech the big tobacco of the 21st century, as this article so clearly explains. Children's well-being is collateral damage in the hunt for eyeballs. Only regulation will stop this. Plus working together through DelaySmartphones

How does meta know whether content is from adults or children? And given it knows (we know it knows) why is it so hard to protect children from inappropriate apps and content? Answer in an email to 'wedontgiveashitaslongaswegetdata.meta.aholes'

Given multiple issues of smartphones and children that Richard Adams details in this article, why hasn't The Guardian editorial come out strongly to protect children? Why do they continue to support Bigtech and dodge this issue?! theguardian.com/education/2024…

"Students say their mental illness is caused by anxiety at moving away from home, a lack of friends and mounting debt" Factors 1 and 2 are not new challenges so what actually is causing this? It's smartphones. Yet no mention by Simon Jenkins The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Arabella Skinner, director of the campaign group Safescreens, said: “We want the government to produce a risk assessment on the use of EdTech [educational technology], and there should be a moratorium on new tech purchases until it is completed.” This is absolutely correct bravo

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