Jonathan Haidt

Poor kids use phones a lot more than rich kids.

So phone-free schools gives us a level playing field.

Everyone has six or seven hours without their phones.

Everyone can learn.

But you're right.

It has to be the schools, the communities, the state governments, they're acting really well.

A lot of them jump right into and act phone-free schools.

Some of them are raising the age.

So states are doing a great job actually.

The federal government is the big hole.

META spends a huge amount of money influencing Congress through many different methods, including investing in the districts of key representatives.

So META has been able to stop it.

There has been zero legislation ever to protect children.

The internet was set up with a couple of laws in 1998 that caused this problem.

Congress has done zero, nothing ever to protect children.

That's exactly right.

In the 1990s, we thought there was an educational equity-ish.

The rich kids have computers and laptops increasingly by the end of the decade.

And a lot of philanthropists, I think Bill Gates, a lot of people said, well, let's spend a lot of money so that we get a computer on every desk.

Every kid should have a computer on their desk.