Seine-Port is introducing restrictions on phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do
A picture of a smartphone with a red line through it serves as a warning in the window of a hairdresser’s shop in a French village that has voted to ban people scrolling on their phones in public. “Everyone is struggling with too much screen time,” said Ludivine, a cardiology nurse, as she had her hair cut into a bob, leaving her phone out of sight in her bag. “I voted in favour, this could be a solution.”
Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public, banning adults and children from scrolling on their devices while walking down the street, while sitting with others on a park bench, while in shops, cafes or eating in restaurants and while parents wait for their children in front of the school gates. Those who might check their phone’s map when lost are instead being encouraged to ask for directions.
The village has also approved a charter for families on children’s use of screens: no screens of any kind in the morning, no screens in bedrooms, no screens before bed or during meals. If parents of teenagers sign a written agreement not to give their child a smartphone before the age of 15, the town hall will provide the child with an old-fashioned handset for calls only.
What a bunch of clowns. Nanny states never work.
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This is the most, small french town thing ever. There is never anything to do in these places so the younger generation always leave literally because there’s no employment opportunities unless you want to become a baker, in which case there are 80 different bakeries in a town with a population of 400.
So the kids go elsewhere and leave behind all of the old folk with nothing to do except curtain twitch. And you end up with dumb pronouncements like this. Looking at your phone is functionally no different to reading a book or a newspaper.
Is it an advertisement for Vision Pro?
Yeah let’s go back to when kids had literally nothing to do and had to invent stuff. I’m sure that’ll not cause any problems.
Ah yes, kids outside playing with friends and using their creativity to come up with things to do. That was such a dangerous time and all of us who grew up before mobile devices were everywhere are all in jail because we did stupid shit. Not to mention how unhealthy if was to be running around, biking, blading, etc out in the sun.
Yep, let’s reinforce kids never getting any sun and spending all of their time living through their phones or pads and never really experiencing life in the moment.
This isn’t just about the kids anymore though. Even gray hairs who grew up before we had even the motorola brick are watching entire concerts through their phone.
I’m not saying that I agree with the “state” trying to set those kind of limits. That’s up to parents or other guardians. I remember when having a TV in your room was a privilege now even toddlers have iphones/pads that they scream and cry without.
Being bored has positive impact on kids, it stimulates creativity. Having screen has negative impact.
As someone who was locked in a room with nothing to do for years, yeah fuck that. Having a phone allows me to constantly learn and it is infinitely superior.
Locked in the room, and not using screen in public places in that village are different things.
yes, let’s
Lmao
I love saying it:
Get fucked people.
Who upvotes this edgy teenager garbage?
My response is pretty reasonable.
Edgy 14 year olds always set the bar for reasonableness.
If fellow adult came up to me and asked me to put my phone away when I was in public I would kindly ask how I could help them fuck off. I don’t know what to tell you taco Tuesday, but the people that come up with this stuff and not anything useful….can get fucked.
I get it, you pride yourself like acting like a child both online and in real life. Good for you.
I’ve been outraged for decades about people in public service position of powers not doing what’s in the best interest of others. I just oversimplified my general frustration with these ass clown type of people who are so fucking out of touch with reality, this is what we get: a steaming pile of shit that these people are proud of.
Again, get fucked. This is not helpful at all, but makes them feel empowered like they have done something when in reality, they have just wasted countless hours.
I don’t give a fuck about how you perceive me, but this type of thinking is getting us nowhere and has to stop.
So please, at this point, how can I help you fuck off since you are just whining about my use profanity and I don’t give a fuck.
Lol decades and you still talk like that? Holy shit, I figured you were a teenager.
Also have to love the “let me write this long reply defending myself…but I don’t care what you think!” Transparent like a teenager too.
Time to grow up, my man.
The ultimate goal of democracy is to allow people to organize themselves and their society in whatever way they see fit. If the enforcement (or lack thereof) of this law is not in strides with national law, I don’t see the problem with this ordinance. It is a way of putting some more social pressure to the habit of smartphone usage in public spaces and the daily life of people in this town. People who don’t follow through suffer literally no consequence, but I bet it will change habits for what the inhabitants of this town think it’s for the better. Let them have this, I say.
I bet it will change habits for what the inhabitants of this town think it’s for the better.
I don’t know, this sounds like the sort of rule that’s implemented by the same sort of people who are always in homeowners associations. A bunch of Karen’s with nothing better to do except make random pronouncements about how everyone else should live their lives.
so no scrolling but you don’t have to scroll everything. playing games or watching youtube is fine i guess
