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Changing Childhood by Reducing Smartphone Use
The speaker aims to create social change by rolling back phone-based childhood and restoring play-based childhood. The manifesto includes legally banning smartphones before high school and no media before age 16. The speaker highlights the widespread discontent with excessive phone use, stating that parents worry about its impact on their children's wellbeing. The speaker also notes that both the left and the right agree on the negative effects of excessive phone use, and even children themselves express a desire for a world without social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. The speaker describes the current situation as a social trap, where individuals feel compelled to use phones because everyone else is doing so.