{"id":14283,"date":"2024-04-30T07:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T05:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/smartphones-ban-may-cause-more-harm-than-good-says-molly-russells-father\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T05:38:24","slug":"smartphones-ban-may-cause-more-harm-than-good-says-molly-russells-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/smartphones-ban-may-cause-more-harm-than-good-says-molly-russells-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones ban may cause more harm than good, says Molly Russell\u2019s father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Russell says parental controls could weaken trust and \u2018punish children for tech firms\u2019 failures\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/30\/children-safe-online-change-tech-companies-social-media\">Ian Russell: Tech companies need to change<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Government proposals to ban the sale of smartphones to under-16s and raise the minimum age for accessing social media risk causing more harm than good, the father of Molly Russell has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Russell said it was \u201cno surprise\u201d there is a groundswell of pressure for tougher regulation of social media platforms but said plans for a fresh crackdown were flawed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/30\/smartphones-ban-more-harm-than-good-molly-russell-father\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/450440f7205202f005b7edffba47003002a4dee7\/2_0_6086_3653\/master\/6086.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6d147e8a220122b10541e1f054423553\" title=\"Smartphones ban may cause more harm than good, says Molly Russell\u2019s father\" \/>Ian Russell says parental controls could weaken trust and \u2018punish children for tech firms\u2019 failures\u2019<br \/>\nIan Russell: Tech companies need to change<br \/>\nGovernment proposals to ban the sale of smartphones to under-16s and raise the minimum age for accessing social media risk causing more harm than good, the father of Molly Russell has warned.<br \/>\nIan Russell said it was \u201cno surprise\u201d there is a groundswell of pressure for tougher regulation of social media platforms but said plans for a fresh crackdown were flawed. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Russell says parental controls could weaken trust and \u2018punish children for tech firms\u2019 failures\u2019 Ian Russell: Tech companies need to change Government proposals to ban the sale of smartphones to under-16s and raise the minimum age for accessing social media risk causing more harm than good, the father of Molly Russell has warned. Ian &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/smartphones-ban-may-cause-more-harm-than-good-says-molly-russells-father\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smartphones ban may cause more harm than good, says Molly Russell\u2019s father<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}