A Vermont state senator looking to make a point about cellphone use is calling for people under the age of 21 to face $1,000 fines and jail time if they are caught using the devices.
Sen. John Rodgers, a Democrat, has introduced a bill to the state legislature that would ban cellphones for anybody under the legal drinking age.
“In light of the dangerous and life-threatening consequences of cellphone use by young people, it is clear that persons under 21 years of age are not developmentally mature enough to safely possess them,” the bill says.
“The Internet and social media, accessed primarily through cell phones, are used to radicalize and recruit terrorists, fascists, and other extremists,” it continues, according to the Times Argus newspaper. “Cell phones have often been used by mass shooters of younger ages for research on previous shootings.”
Anyone who breaks the cellphone ban, if passed, would face up to a year in prison and/or a $1,000 fine.
But Rodgers suggested that he is merely trying to make a point about cellphone use and doesn’t expect the measure to pass.
(Source: Fox News)
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Hopefully this measure passes. With all of the shmutz on the Internet, kids should not be permitted to use them. Moreover, cell phones distract from learning at an important time during their lives when they’re preparing to establish a Torah observant home.
The hypocrisy. Democrats want to lower voting age… So at 12 girls can have an abortion without parents consent, knowledge, or involvement. At 16 they can drive. At 18 they are old enough to die for their country. But they can’t own a gun, a beer, or a cellphone until they are 21.
We need spread the word about the kosher phone. I am sure there is something like this in the secular world but it would make a point.
He doesn’t sound like a religious fanatic!
Sounds like his kid asked for a cellphone and he was too cheap to get one……..