Panic over children’s mobile phone use distracts from the help young people actually want

By Andy Phippen, Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University

Should young teenagers be banned from using social media? That’s the question being discussed by British MPs debating a bill that proposes the government should decide within a year whether to raise the age children can have social media accounts from 13 to 16. It follows a recent petition on the same topic that garnered nearly 130,000 signatures, which also triggered a debate among MPs.

Actually, MPs have been discussing this topic for…

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