Caps on cell phone use for kids mulled
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Street Talk
Yang Weiping
Professor, Shaanxi Normal University
"The spread of pornographic and lewd content on mobile WAP sites are like malignant tumors invading and hiding in the information network, a trend that is intensifying after 3G services started. Children do not have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Many children of my friends are just primary students but most of them have mobile phones. If we don't cut off this channels spreading indecent content, they will exert a disastrous effect on children."
Gao Yuan
Civil servant, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
"I bought my 14-year-old boy a mobile phone three years ago. Several times at midnight, I found him using it to surf the Internet, read e-books or play online games, which had affected his health and grades, and forced me to pay huge phone bills. I warned him many times about the bad habit but he didn't listen. So I confiscated his mobile phone last September and he became angry with me at first. During the last semester, it has been proven that without the cell phone, my boy is much fitter and happier."
Heitudi
Netizen on www.qq.com
"The objective behind the suggestion is good, but choosing such a method to reach it is stupid. The professor emphasized the mobile phone's role in spreading pornographic content but overlooked the numerous sources of such content. Prohibiting children under 12 from using cell phones will cause a lot inconvenience to children and their parents. I think the fundamental solution is to control the sources of the undesirable content, as adults are also the victims of it."
