Sen. Lenney, you’ve written an excellent analysis that supports your statement:
“Don’t give them a smartphone until they’re older. Give them a flip phone if they need to stay in touch. Say no to social media and actually enforce it. Check their devices regularly. Keep phones out of bedrooms at night.”
This goes for adults too. Dump your stupid smartphones, which surveil you 24/7. Use a flip phone for communication. Use your home laptop, desktop computer or tablet to “surf the net.” You did it years ago before smart phones existed, and you — and your kids — will survive and thrive without smart phones.
Also, how do these platforms verify that YOU are the parent? Do they collect more data on YOU that can be hacked or leaked? (No database, not government, not nonprofit, not corporate is secure and unhackable.)
Social media, while helpful for research and some basic communications, remains harmful, addictive, and a HUGE time waster too. It literally has made people into crazies, willing to bash anyone they know or don’t know.
We need to return to personal responsibility, proper parenting, in-person interactions, and non-digital tools (like books, handwritten notes, outdoor play, etc.)
Thank you again for staying on top of these digital issues as they relate to parents and kids. Let’s kill this bill, please!
Governments and laws should not pick winners and loses. If this Proposed Law is not good for all Idahoans its a No Brainier. If it treats the symptoms and not the problem We the People don't want this.
This seems to open the door to digital ID, as we'll all have to prove we are of adult age. Then this will go into a database which could be hacked or used against people. Each person will be tracked for advertising and other purposes.
FWIW, whenever government gets involved for "safety" or "health" reasons, it ends up being used against everyone.
Ultimately, it's the parent's responsibility. People want the government to take care of us, set our moral plumbline, and then complain when the child has anxiety or has learned about cutting herself, or thinks he's a cat... Technology is a rotten babysitter.
Brilliant breakdown of the real issue here. The seven-year exemption thing is particularly wild becuase it literally protects the kids who've been exposed longest to zero oversight. I've watched school districts implement similar compliance frameworks and they all end up the same: expensive infrastructure that sounds good on paper while behavoir patterns barely shift. Parents get handed a false sense of security from government intervention.
Sen. Lenney, you’ve written an excellent analysis that supports your statement:
“Don’t give them a smartphone until they’re older. Give them a flip phone if they need to stay in touch. Say no to social media and actually enforce it. Check their devices regularly. Keep phones out of bedrooms at night.”
This goes for adults too. Dump your stupid smartphones, which surveil you 24/7. Use a flip phone for communication. Use your home laptop, desktop computer or tablet to “surf the net.” You did it years ago before smart phones existed, and you — and your kids — will survive and thrive without smart phones.
Also, how do these platforms verify that YOU are the parent? Do they collect more data on YOU that can be hacked or leaked? (No database, not government, not nonprofit, not corporate is secure and unhackable.)
Social media, while helpful for research and some basic communications, remains harmful, addictive, and a HUGE time waster too. It literally has made people into crazies, willing to bash anyone they know or don’t know.
We need to return to personal responsibility, proper parenting, in-person interactions, and non-digital tools (like books, handwritten notes, outdoor play, etc.)
Thank you again for staying on top of these digital issues as they relate to parents and kids. Let’s kill this bill, please!
Governments and laws should not pick winners and loses. If this Proposed Law is not good for all Idahoans its a No Brainier. If it treats the symptoms and not the problem We the People don't want this.
This seems to open the door to digital ID, as we'll all have to prove we are of adult age. Then this will go into a database which could be hacked or used against people. Each person will be tracked for advertising and other purposes.
FWIW, whenever government gets involved for "safety" or "health" reasons, it ends up being used against everyone.
It most definitely opens that door.
Ultimately, it's the parent's responsibility. People want the government to take care of us, set our moral plumbline, and then complain when the child has anxiety or has learned about cutting herself, or thinks he's a cat... Technology is a rotten babysitter.
Totally correct.
Brilliant breakdown of the real issue here. The seven-year exemption thing is particularly wild becuase it literally protects the kids who've been exposed longest to zero oversight. I've watched school districts implement similar compliance frameworks and they all end up the same: expensive infrastructure that sounds good on paper while behavoir patterns barely shift. Parents get handed a false sense of security from government intervention.
Parents can handle the phones. Fix the spending and eliminate property taxes.
Sorry, but most kids have smart phones and no one is monitoring. Visit a school and you will see. I agree with your last sentence 100%.
Be more specific, what do you like about? Constructive dialogue is important.