New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools
Exclusive: Kathy Hochul pushes online child safety, telling Meta: ‘You’re not going to profit off the mental health of children’New York governor Kathy Hochul plans to introduce a bill banning smartphones in schools, the latest in a series of legislative moves aimed at online child safety by New York’s top official.“I have seen these addictive algorithms pull in young people, literally capture them and make them prisoners in a space where they are cut off from human connection, social interaction and normal classroom activity,” she said. Continue reading...
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Exclusive: Kathy Hochul pushes online child safety, telling Meta: ‘You’re not going to profit off the mental health of children’
New York governor Kathy Hochul plans to introduce a bill banning smartphones in schools, the latest in a series of legislative moves aimed at online child safety by New York’s top official.
“I have seen these addictive algorithms pull in young people, literally capture them and make them prisoners in a space where they are cut off from human connection, social interaction and normal classroom activity,” she said. Continue reading...