Their is a call for a ban on under 16s having phones here too (UK) This is from the parents of Molly Russell and Brianna Ghey, former took her life following relentless bullying, latter was murdered by a teen who had a hatred of Trans people the other did it for kicks.
While I understand their sentiment, parents need to start to actually PARENT their kids properly rather than buying a mobile child minder and just shoving that in their hands, while they are also glued to thair phones, oblivious to what their kids are doing and usually don't seem to actually care.
We need to educate people as to what is acceptable behaviour however those rules come from government who are hardly in a position to dictate given their behaviour, on top of that we have mass killing in Gaza and perjaps the west bank, and the government justifiy this with self defense, when the rest of the population want this killing to stop, or political class just let it carry on. So governments are not in a position to really dictate,
Social media companies can only go so far surely, before parents need to step in, kids and teens are worried about what they see online and look to adults to help with this, we are just failing, as profits seem to come first before ethics, safety, etc.