Rejected petition: To provision people the legal right to refuse smartphone use without penalty.
Rejected on
We are calling on Parliament to enact the Digital Autonomy and Mental Health Protection Bill. The Bill would require employers to provide non-smartphone alternatives to workplace systems and require platform designers to stop building architecturally addictive products.
The evidence is not speculative. Studies published in peer-reviewed journals demonstrate that heavy smartphone use reduces grey matter density in brain regions responsible for attention and emotional control, reduces working memory and fluid intelligence even when a phone is merely present on a desk, and is associated with a 66% increased risk of suicide risk factors in young people. These are not lifestyle preferences. They are measurable harms.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Enshrine the right for citizens to live offline in UK law
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/753015We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.