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Ryan Bridge: Should we just ban kids' cell phones altogether?
Is banning smart phones for kids a dumb idea?
That would leave them with dumb phones, sans apps and the internet, just texts and phone calls.
Remember the old Nokia? Or Alcatels? They came in that weird light orangey-peachy colour and a purpley-blue.
David Seymour's talking about this after a blog post suggesting it'd be easier, and less restrictive for everyone else, if we banned the hardware not the software.
Make smartphones like cigarettes or beer – if you saw a 12-year-old with one, you'd judge the parents, wouldn't you?
At present, parents hand them out like candy, caving by osmosis to…
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