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  1. A turf war between people who want to ban social media for teenagers vs: those who want it regulated to the point of Orwellian surveillance — there can be only one!

    Pardon the Highlander reference, but I never thought I’d encounter a drama* of child safety activists, so mutually exclusive in their approaches that each cannot allow the other to exist.

    On one side the Ghey followers, seeking outright bans on phone & social media access, so post-Brexit children can enjoy the 1970s all over again.

    On the other side the Russell team, who’d have nothing to regulate if the Ghey followers win; it’s interesting to see them minimising the Ghey proposals as-if they were intended to apply to schools only.

    And of course in the meantime a socially aware and & technically informed government policy should be doing something like the Dutch are doing.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/19/banning-phones-in-englands-schools-will-not-address-online-safety-say-campaigners

    [*] new collective noun?

    https://alecmuffett.com/article/109219

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