The proposed precautionary measures — phone bans, age-gated platforms, forced default-private accounts — are not in fact low-cost. They impose disproportionate burdens on low-income adolescents (for whom a smartphone is often the household's only persistent internet device) and on adolescent developmental autonomy more broadly. The "low side-effect" framing of the synthesis is therefore incorrect on its own terms.

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