The adolescence writer Jack Thorne has called for a ban on selling smartphones under the age of 16 and says that they should be loved from children in any way '.
The mini series has stormed the streaming cards since the release ten days ago and tells the story of a 13-year-old boy who kills a female classmate after he has been influenced by online misogyny.
Thorne, who wrote the drama together with Ster Stephen Graham, has an eight -year -old son, Elliott, whom he hopes to prevent him from possessing a smartphone until he turns 14.
Thorne said to The Times: 'I don't think I'm brave enough to say, when 70 to 80 percent of his class has smartphones: “No, you have to be isolated. “I don't want him to be soolated.
“But it will never be in his bedroom until he is old enough to cope with what it is like to have that instrument private.”
Research for the drama brought Thorne into the dark corners of the poisonous online manosphere more and more by young men.
Experiencing the dangerous ideology for itself opened Thorne's eyes to be very good how powerful it can be, he said, as the argument of masculinist influencers is 'attractive'.
The 46-year-old said it made him worried for his young son and cousins.
Adolescence Co-writer Jack Thorne (photo) has called for a ban on selling smartphones under 16
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He argued that creating better role models for young men could take years, while certain crucial preventive measures could be implemented immediately.
He continued: 'I would forbid the sale of smartphones up to the age of 16. Why do children need smartphones? They can have telephones but no smartphones. Certainly children from the neighborhood of smartphones in any way, I think, is of vital importance. '
Thorne compared his plan with a law proposed by former Premier Rishi Sunak, who would have forbidden young people to be able to smoke legally.
His bill would have made it a crime to sell tobacco to anyone born after January 1, 2009, so in theory, so that they do not form an addiction in adolescence.
Thorne has recently been the target of online trolls that question his sexuality, ethnicity and 'whether I am a man or not'.
Some have thrown anti-Jewish outs to the writer, although he is not Jewish.
Adolescence investigates 'Incel' culture, which is the fault of the use of social media in bullying.
But in a moment of life that imitated art, Thorne revealed that it is that is now being chased by online fighters.
The cast and crew live on 12 March 2025 a special screening for adolescence in London in London
Stephen Graham, co-writer in addition to Thorne, also plays as Eddie Miller in adolescence
He told BBC Two's Current Affairs Program Nieuwsnight: 'It is very interesting.
'I have been a bit on television, and what happened in recent days is that my photo is spread with questions (made about) my masculinity, questions about whether I have too much estrogen (a group of female sex hormones) in my system, asking if I am a man or not.
'Strange things like people who say I am Jewish, if I am not, it has been very strange and it has given me a taste of something that is very strange.
“I feel very comfortable with what I look like, I don't mind, but it has been scientifically interesting.”
