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There's supposed to be a computer in front of every kid since grade one. Schools are instead banning the little computers kids smuggle in [A computer to use in the school as a means of education is not the same of letting kids use a cellphone in class]

- Hypocrisy. Smartphone bans are pushed by people who use them all the time themselves. [Because they are adults not kids]

- This is the same thing as with corporations locking down employees' computers. It's a policy designed for the worst behaving kids to the detriment of the best behaving ones. Poor use of time and poor self-control become expected and even the best kids will slide towards these low expectations. [employees are not kids, also employees are not in school they are in a job]

- Totalitarian policies like this get passed only because teens and tweens are disenfranchised. Democratic government trying to enforce similar population-wide ban wouldn't last long. [Totalitarian policies? This has to be a joke]

- It's not about games or social media. Those are actually tolerated far better than apps like Socratic, which are treated like criminal level of cheating. This is technophobia all the way through. [Of course. It's not about games and social media, it's a about kids not using a cell phone while in the classroom]

That's basically what happened, just google São Paulo street art.

Finally someone who is not spitting things they have no clue about

Luckily this is just an article explaining one side of the law, and it's from 2001. Obviously, there are advertisements, but not on large billboards across the city. Sometimes, I feel like this site is no different from a Twitter thread. There are so many uninformed people making comments about things they have no clue about.

The article and photos are from 2011....

Really? I thought nature was manufacturing plastic rocks

For now increasing data size has been enough to show better results. We don't when diminishing returns will be significant.

That's not the point

Maybe that's why i enjoy electronic music

If you continue to mine you would be a billionaire today? Maybe the lesson here is just don't give up. Nice story anyway.

1 billion trillion schemkels

Money has no intrinsic value