Reducing kids’ exposure to the internet and social media is something that’s very tempting for governments who want to control and surveil everything that happens online.

In reality, there is very little evidence and thinking behind both the problem and the solutions, Ulla Autenrieth explains here.

“The pandemic” for instance is another phenomenon that’s always mentioned as having hurt kids’ development. I can say what has hurt us and our kids much much more than that have been the ongoing campaigns of austerity of the Dutch and German governments. Odd, how those are mentioned so rarely.

https://kleinstadt.ch/mit-verboten-werden-jugendliche-zum-schweigen-gebracht/