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Ryan Bridge: Should we just ban kids' cell phones altogether? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Is banning smart phones for kids a dumb idea, not
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  Speaker 1: the apps, but the phones themselves. That would leave them
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  Speaker 1: with dumb phones, sands apps, sands internet, just text and
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  Speaker 1: phone calls. Remember the old Nokia or the Alcatels of
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  Speaker 1: the early two thousands. They came in that sort of
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  Speaker 1: weird light orange peachy color. There was a purply bluey
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  Speaker 1: one as well, like you could get too tight, two
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  Speaker 1: colors and one type. David Semol's talking about this. This
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  Speaker 1: is after a blog post suggesting it'd be easier and
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  Speaker 1: less restrictive for everyone else if we just banned the
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  Speaker 1: hardware and not the software. Make smartphones like cigarettes or beer.
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  Speaker 1: If you saw a twelve year old with one, you
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  Speaker 1: would judge their parents, wouldn't you. At present, parents hand
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  Speaker 1: these things out like candy caving by osmosis to their kids.
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  Speaker 1: Pear pressure to own one of the things. The social
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  Speaker 1: media bands don't really seem to be working very well.
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  Speaker 1: As we've spoken about before, half the Aussie kids get
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  Speaker 1: around theirs. Where there's a will, there's always a way.
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  Speaker 1: The actual device itself does, on the face of it,
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  Speaker 1: kind of make more sense. Don't you think you can
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  Speaker 1: still communicate? But not with the entire world, and not
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  Speaker 1: with the entire sum of human knowledge, good and bad,
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  Speaker 1: at your unsupervised child's fingertips. This way, adults can keep
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  Speaker 1: using social media and not have to use some ID
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  Speaker 1: or a date of birth test to log into their Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: which all sounds great, except the real problem here is
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  Speaker 1: parents themselves. They are often the ones who are on
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  Speaker 1: their phones and ignoring their kids in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: If you were a child, wouldn't you want to be
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  Speaker 1: doing whatever your parents were doing too. It doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: matter what the law says, and changing it won't change everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's ultimately up to adults raising those kids to teach
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  Speaker 1: them right from wrong, good from bad, and whether eight
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  Speaker 1: hours a day doom scrolling is a behavior that's acceptable
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  Speaker 1: for them or their kids. For more from early edition
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