To provision people the legal right to refuse smartphone use without penalty. — 11 signatures. Status: rejected.
We are calling on Parliament to enact the Digital Autonomy and Mental Health Protection Bill. The Bill would require employers to provide non-smartphone alternatives to workplace systems and require platform designers to stop building architecturally addictive products.
The evidence is not speculative. Studies published in peer-reviewed journals demonstrate that heavy smartphone use reduces grey matter density in brain regions responsible for attention and emotional control, reduces working memory and fluid intelligence even when a phone is merely present on a desk, and is associated with a 66% increased risk of suicide risk factors in young people. These are not lifestyle preferences. They are measurable harms.
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