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China to limit teenagers’ smartphone use to two hours a day

www.telegraph.co.uk China to limit teenagers’ smartphone use to two hours a day

Raft of restrictions aimed at cutting down on number of children addicted to technology

also bar users under the age of 18 from accessing the internet from 10pm to 6am.

Meanwhile, a tiered system will mean those under the age of eight will be permitted a maximum of 40 minutes of usage a day, with up to two hours permitted for 16 and 17-year-olds.

Children aged between eight to 16 will have their time limit capped at one hour. ‘Teenager mode’

The proposed reforms are open to public feedback as part of a consultation process scheduled to run until Sept 2.

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It's like prohibition. You ban it, they're gonna find ways around it to use their phones even more. Source: I was once a teenager.
- Features like this would've been amazing when I was a teen! I would mess with my friends (and teachers) phones and force them into toddler mode! Oh what fun!
  I was a teen in the 90s but these days kids have access to far more fun technologies like $2 development boards that you can program to execute whatever mouse/keyboard functions you please (and yes, they work when you plug them into phones too!). If I were a teen these days that's probably what I'd be having fun with instead of hacking into AOL (oh what fun that was!).