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Censorship rather than open communication is always dubious. In 1990sxa college where I tsught seniors had stidents habd in their cellphones to the office and collect after classes. Teaxhers patrolled local Park in breaktimes with cellphones ( drug deals were a factor). This was Christchurch. Psrt of our teaching was about online content and being discriminating. Computers ( used in class) had a block on certsin content. Dud not stop students accessing restricted sites! Parental and other adult overviews and discussion sround online content simplostically seems sensible...if only. I would definitely not be in favour of government ( not known for wise or informed decisions)further restricting digital access. Already platforms especislly fbk censor, delete, excoriate posters for content especially sex rrealist views as 'against community standards' quite ridiculous and s woorying aspect of a blinkered political ideology and so motivated.

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David, do you ever sleep?

By now I don't think anyone at all rational believes the media reporting in anything other than "soundbites", so is it any wonder that, en masse, they've fastened on to a convenient shock shorthand in describing the bill. I'm almost sure that few of them have actually read it. Equally, I suspect that anyone rational will see the impossibility of the social media platforms being able to formulate a workable response to the new law.

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To answer your question - yes I do, but I work hard and fast. So much to do, so little time and at our age the desire to make sixty seconds worth of distance run is even more critical .

Thanks for your comment and continued readership.

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...am behind on the DoD posts, must try the 'hard & fast' approach, ha!

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Thank you David. Limiting accounts to over 16s seems a sensible measure to my mind...let's see how it works/can it even work, as Aroha remarks.

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Hi Hilary - thanks for the comment. I am afraid I am one of Celia Robinsons “noisy few” and prefer to let parents set the standards and let the kids work out communications. I would rather not impose my values on them because I am from the past and they do things differently there. (To coin a phrase)

Enjoy the DoD. It was interesting to research although the writing took time. It was a winter project.

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I certainly see both sides. Even our early 30-somethings say they are grateful they didn't have smartphones until they did. Parental standard-setting...sounds fraught capital F to me & when you consider the sort of 'standards' that are often set on all manner of other things.

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