Think about EU standardizing USB-C for charging. Many people were up in arms: Do you want the state to decide these things? However, personally I benefited. Now I have to carry around only one charger for all my devices.
If the govt standardizes non-smart phones for kids we will all benefit.
I would be completely down with kids only allowed to own flip phones without apps or internet. Phone calls and texts, bring back the infamous T9, kids under 16 are not allowed to be sold a non-flip phone.
Of course this doesn’t address tablets, netbooks etc.
So the actual answer is good parenting, which I posit is one of the bigger problems in the US today and has been for a long time.
Or we keep pretending that pushing education and passing laws about cell phones will somehow be a substitute for bad parenting. The US has been doing that for a long time as well, isn’t working.
Think about EU standardizing USB-C for charging. Many people were up in arms: Do you want the state to decide these things? However, personally I benefited. Now I have to carry around only one charger for all my devices.
If the govt standardizes non-smart phones for kids we will all benefit.