You think the state should restrict what adults do on their phones?

The state already restricts what adults do on their phones. You can't buy drugs or look at CSAM. You can't use your phone while driving or operating dangerous machinery. You can't install apps which facilitate piracy. You can't wipe your phone when the state lawfully requests it from you. The list goes on.

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fuzzfactor 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

>You can't install apps which facilitate piracy.

Initially read this as "can't install apps which facilitate privacy."

And that was before I got to your next sentence . . .

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slopinthebag 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you saying that because laws exist, and it’s illegal to break the law while using your phone, that is therefore justification for making it illegal to scroll on social media for longer than an hour each day?

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zbentley 3 days ago | parent [-]

I didn't make that argument. I responded to the statement:

> You think the state should restrict what adults do on their phones?

The state already does that.

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slopinthebag 3 days ago | parent [-]

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	▲	freejazz 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> You know what point I was making Try being as generous as you demand of others
	▲	zbentley 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There's a big difference between "the state should start doing something that it does not do/hasn't ever done" and "the state controls something and it should change the way it does that". That's not pedantry. That's the difference between "darn gub'mint won't let me land my private jet on the freeway" and "darn gub'mint lowered the speed limit on the freeway". If you want to argue that the state shouldn't control phone use related to social media, you need to engage with the ways they already control phone use, and whether/how well those work (and have a complex conversation about the costs/benefits of adding an additional control); it's dishonest to frame it as a qualitative shift from not restricting what adults do on their phones to doing that.

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nrmitchi 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

No, but I sure as shit think it should be an opt-in feature that adults are aware of and can make a decision to turn on for themselves.