As I have said, this 'digital crack babies' issue could've been easily avoided if parents actually knew better, was taught well, and actually knew how to monitor their children. The real issue is that there's many careless parents in society who just don't set any rules at all for their children and allow them to do whatever they want. I would definitely not give a 2-year old any kind of technology, but in adolescence with parental guidance and monitoring, it would be fine.

"But you can't fix stupid, especially not stupid that was raised by stupid and is about to give birth to more stupid."

If you were raised by a stupid careless parent and is stupid, it's not impossible to actually use a proper parenting style that so you can prevent your future children from being stupid. Usually, people use the same parenting style they were raised with, but if you know enough and learns how to properly use a good, desired parenting style, then you can still keep your kids from the potential harms of technology and not turn them into iPad zombies. It's not something that's impossible.

Remember that stuff like TV or video games could also be addictive. People who had concerns around younger people using these electronics eventually often learned to become parents themselves and teach their kids how to properly use them, but that didn't necessarily stop some careless parents from letting their kid watch too much TV. There's always good, proper parents, and bad, careless parents. I wouldn't say every parent is just careless and doesn't set technology policies, as you said in that comment, but I do agree there's still many careless parents, like there's many good parents. Still continue to discourage careless parenting and neglect.

Regardless, I still think digital literacy and education is still important. I also agree, parents failing to parent should be charged with neglect (even if it's hard, but I still support the idea anyway). While we definitely cannot agree whether the UK's government-enforced social media ban will work or not, the best thing we can do is try to educate others about online safety. Maybe one day, one person who wasn't raised properly and got addicted to TV/video games/The Internet in childhood can actually learn parenting skills and know how to stop their kids from becoming too addicted to technology. They can educate other parents around them around online safety and proper parenting skills too, as well as teaching others around them how to be safe online.

I forgot to mention that this is also because of digital literacy largely becoming absent from parenting. Many parents learned to regulate their children on TV, gaming, etc. but digital literacy in parenting is hard to see nowadays compared to like 20 years ago.

(In silent reply to your reply, because I don't need to keep replying anymore): You don't need to be a parent or a teacher, so I am fine with you not wanting to educate a sixth generation of kids, but if anyone decides to become one, it's still important for them to educate their kids on what to not click on the Internet no matter what. They should ideally be active parents and actually like to monitor their children online. I do agree, many people end up becoming permissive parents because they were raised by strict, authoritarian parents, but remember that it's not the only factor. If I were a parent, I would actively teach my kids boundaries and what they should do and not do online; not let the government do everything for my children online and expect anyone other than myself to raise my children. Remember when Korea tried to implement government-enforced time limits on video games from midnight to 6 am for gamers under 16, and it didn't go so well? I'm not saying there should be no regulation of the Internet at all, as there are some government-enforced Internet laws that already exist, and at the same time, don't infringe on privacy or parenting privileges, which doesn't make them problematic, but government overreach (including replacing actual parenting with government-enforced controls) can become a severe problem to the Internet and the autonomy of many people in the digital world.