United Kingdom

So much ageism in this mindset, 'children' under 16 shouldn't be allowed to buy phones? Just another obstacle to them escaping parental abuse or religious abuse, but I guess that's what the conservative government wants.

If you're five years old, you walk down the sidewalk next to the street where you can be hit by a car. That can kill you.

If we can trust people to do that with some basic instructions like "look both ways before crossing the road", I feel like we can probably trust people using the Internet.

When I was a kid, video games were the new and dangerous thing that parents worried about, agonized about their impact on kids, like the idea that killing things in a video game might desensitize kids to violence and turn them into murderers or something. Whole era of games where various countries tried using different colored blood and things like that with the idea of trying to avoid that.

At some point before that, exposure to pop music was a concern, stuff like references to sex.

And there was the Comic Code Authority era in the US, when parents were worried about kids being exposed to stuff in comic books, might encourage them to become criminals and such.

I get the broad concern that if something is new, it's unknown and that you want to protect your kid, but frankly, I think that we've got a bit of a history of worrying excessively about this sort of thing. Kids tend to turn out fine.

This is shocking. Just as shocking as a similar stat in 10-20 years of the same age group wearing Immersive Glasses. Maybe more will. As far fetched as that sounds today as the above sounded 20 years ago.