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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones (jacobin.com)
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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 hours ago

Ehhhh no.

I can get behind "ban spying on me."

I can even get behind "ban social media, especially the kind that makes you sell yourself, though pseudononymous link aggregators are less the issue."

But "no more torrenting at work, no more reading digitally while pooping, no more encrypted chats, now have to carry a book, a camera, an mp3 player, my GBC, and a dumb phone, just to make up for the phone?"

No.