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Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public | France
Seine-Port is introducing restrictions on phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do
A picture of a smartphone with a red line through it serves as a warning in the window of a hairdresser’s shop in a French village that has voted to ban people scrolling on their phones in public. Photograph: Magali Delporte/The GuardianHe added: “Teenagers walking down the street almost all have their phone in their hand … I understand that the word ‘ban’ can offend some people. “There’s not much else to do – if you ban phones, you’d have to put in place real structures for young people’s leisure, sports and games,” said Nawel Deciron, 21, a history student and trainee teacher.
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