Smartphone ban for children: Is there a phone soon from 14?
Can children soon no longer have their own mobile phone? Politics in Berlin is currently discussing an advance, according to which the smartphone could only be allowed from the age of 14. That would mean: who is younger, should have no own device more.
Parents of young children know the problem: In the meantime many of their own mobile phones are already among the status symbols for many people, as the new brand shoes or the newest toy used to be. A ban could end this state abruptly.
What is it all about? Who wants to ban something here?
The idea of Julia von Weiler, a consultant of the Federal Government, is put into play. Von Weiler is an internet expert on the advisory board of the abuse officer. In this capacity, she is now calling for a ban on smartphones for children under the age of 14.
Why should mobile phones be banned for children?
Behind the discussion about a cell phone ban for under 14-year-olds is the concern that children in recent years would come into contact with sexual content. So increase for years, the number of cases in which children send each other pornographic content via mobile phone.
Partly ten-year-old would spread via their smartphone self-satisfaction videos of peers, police investigators also describe. Weil's policy advisor: "Just as we protect children from alcohol or other drugs, we should also protect them from the risks of early smartphone use."
What do others think of the proposal?
The advancement of advisor Julia von Weil encounters a shared echo. While some parents express themselves positively and others critically on the net, Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig, in particular, sees another problem: a general ban is a quick solution, but the problem of the lack of protection in the network continues to exist quoted in the media.
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