When Beeban Kidron released her 2013 documentary InRealLife about the effect the internet was having on children, The Guardian reviewer Peter Bradshaw called it a watchable film that “tends a little too far to the moral-panic way of thinking”. Surely there were similar complaints about TV, video, and Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock in the past, he asked. Wasn’t this more of the same? Kidron didn’t think so. As she saw it, adults had unleashed on children an unregulated world of dopamine-driven feedback loops designed to keep them glued to their phones complete with dangerous rabbit holes on body image, porn, and…

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