She advocates for prohibiting the use of phones with internet capabilities to those under 16, and states that the best parental control is, precisely, the parents
I think time spent on the device is a side effect of algorithmically driven content. It’s designed to be addictive, oftentimes to elicit negative reactions or drive you towards conspiratorial thinking. Curating your own content is healthier, but for very young children they aren’t going to have the skills necessary to do that. Letting them feed from the bottomless trough that is the internet is definitely going to cause problems.
I think time spent on the device is a side effect of algorithmically driven content. It’s designed to be addictive, oftentimes to elicit negative reactions or drive you towards conspiratorial thinking. Curating your own content is healthier, but for very young children they aren’t going to have the skills necessary to do that. Letting them feed from the bottomless trough that is the internet is definitely going to cause problems.