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The authors, our panelist Dr. J. Niels Rosenquist and two antitrust scholars, argue that addictive social media is built to capture heavy use. They report it can consume 20 to 30 percent of an adolescent's waking hours and call it "the largest shock to cognition in human history."
Because children cannot fully weigh a product's risks, the authors say self-control isn't enough. They argue lawmakers should regulate how these products are designed and what their default settings are, as Congress did with the Credit CARD Act. That reasoning supports a bell-to-bell, phone-free default in Massachusetts schools as consumer protection, not overreach. Our forum panel will discuss this in greater detail on November 19th.
Click through to this interactive national map at phonefreeschoolsreport.org to view legislation in other states. View a broad spectrum of steps other states have taken to reduce or eliminate screens for young people in school.
Except in Illinois and in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which have not passed any legislation ...yet.
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