• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Well yeah. If I was blocked off from communication with everyone, of course I would be anxious. There’s a difference between the security in having your phone on you, and using it all the time.

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      1 year ago

      There has to be a happy medium between not isolating your kids while also protecting them from what is a highly corrupting environment. Maybe this is just hindsight, but I look back at my unfiltered internet access as a kid and am pretty pissed off that my parents didn’t get more involved.

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        1 year ago

        Tbh I had good filtered access as a kid but was rabid for more and private internet access, so kinda went off the deep end when I got a phone. I’m not sure what my parents could have done

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      1 year ago

      Its communication that harms young brains. Kids should never have unrestricted access to the internet.

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        1 year ago

        That sounds like censorship to me (and thus, a bad thing). Maybe it’s just because I come from a background where my ultra religious parents censored the entire secular world from me as a child, but I am firmly against any form of censorship.

        • Sorgan71@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          kids need to have things restricted from them. If a parent believes something is harmful to their kid, then they need to restrict it from them.