Or how about you legislate for parental controls on Smartphones.
You know, like how any desktop or laptop has them?
How are you going to enforce this law? Because parents will still buy their kids smartphones. Are you going to have the police arresting under 16s and confiscating their phones?
Apple has pretty robust parental controls on their devices.
Source: am technical enough to have set them up.
Are any under 16 buying the phones themselves? With the price of phones now I’d guess for the vast majority it is the parents themselves buy it for their kids.
At that point it’s for the parents to decide for themselves
You can still buy perfectly good phones for 1-200€ but yeah the blame still mostly lies with the parents imo.
As if fifteen year olds are buying phones themselves. Discussing this was a waste of time even before you consider that parents need to do some parenting and social networks need some regulation.
As a purely safety device, this sort of plan is rendered unfeasible
