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India’s proposed social media ban for under-18s wins parents’ backing

Digangana Mukherjee, a mother of a six-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, has banned television at her home in the Indian city of Mysore because she does not want her children to become addicted to watching content on screen. A year ago, when her son’s school started using a smart classroom board that streamed online content, she and her husband decided to enrol him in a school where teachers…

India’s proposed social media ban for under-18s wins parents’ backing

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DHS Was Designed as a Weapon

Rep. Delia Ramirez and writers Rozina Ali and Will Sommer discuss the ICE raid on Ilhan Omar and the years of “counterterror” surveillance that paved the way for the Trump administration’s abuses. The post DHS Was Designed as a Weapon appeared first on The Intercept .

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