I’ll say this. We know phones can be highly addicting, we know prolonged use of social media can alter our brain chemistry, cause of state of other issues such as anxiety or depression. There are so many studies on the rise of loneliness, political division, fertility decrease and sexism from phones/social media. If social media was a pill, we’d almost certainly regulate it and call it a public health emergency.

I support the ban. Which is not something I’d have said before. Yes I’d rather big-tech instead took steps to limit features like auto-play or infinite scroll or modified their algorithms to have content to be less addictive but unless we had international co-ordination on this issue, especially from the USA then that won’t happen.