That’s the issue with online advertising in a nutshell, isn’t it.
Looking at it from the outside it doesn’t look like a failure at all, it provides the prison industrial complex with an endless stream of slaves cheap prison labour. If we assume that that’s the actual goal, it’s a resounding success.
At least you can quickly read a tweet, considering how short they are it takes like a second. Shorts are worse, you have the same limited information but you have to watch the whole damn thing to get it (even with subtitles).
I’d be very surprised if the number of actual cases hasn’t increased. Western, Ukrainian and other allied intelligence services have almost certainly increased their activities in Russia since the war began. They’d be terrible at their jobs if they hadn’t.
Edit - this doesn’t mean that the trials aren’t shams, or that the regime doesn’t use false accusations and evidence to rid itself of opposition.
A patch that was announced over a year before it went up, and that people who play on consoles very much did ask for. I’m not happy about it being forced on PC either, but come on, there was no malicious intent here.
And most kids already do. People have been complaining about “kids today” for literally thousands of years. Probably longer, we just don’t have records of it. There have always been troublemakers, and there always will be. People have been blaming everything from literature to TV to music to video games to, nowadays, phones. This, too, will blow over, and it’ll be fine.
And the kids that are this brazenly disrespectful and disruptive would be disrespectful and disruptive without phones too. Most kids aren’t though, no matter how much alarmist media wants them to be. It’s a good old fashioned moral panic. Punish the actual wrongdoers, leave the test of the kids alone.
As long as the phone isn’t used in class I fail to the the issue. There’s no need to ban phone use in general while on school premises.
Okay, I have to ask - why five?
No need for anything particularly modern. Even on a ten year old laptop I’ve not noticed a difference (Windows, on the other hand, barely runs at all on that machine).