also bar users under the age of 18 from accessing the internet from 10pm to 6am.

Meanwhile, a tiered system will mean those under the age of eight will be permitted a maximum of 40 minutes of usage a day, with up to two hours permitted for 16 and 17-year-olds.

Children aged between eight to 16 will have their time limit capped at one hour. ‘Teenager mode’

The proposed reforms are open to public feedback as part of a consultation process scheduled to run until Sept 2.

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    1 year ago

    It’s like prohibition. You ban it, they’re gonna find ways around it to use their phones even more. Source: I was once a teenager.

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      1 year ago

      Features like this would’ve been amazing when I was a teen! I would mess with my friends (and teachers) phones and force them into toddler mode! Oh what fun!

      I was a teen in the 90s but these days kids have access to far more fun technologies like $2 development boards that you can program to execute whatever mouse/keyboard functions you please (and yes, they work when you plug them into phones too!). If I were a teen these days that’s probably what I’d be having fun with instead of hacking into AOL (oh what fun that was!).