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The internet should have a curfew. Feat. Slawn (📍London)

May 1, 2026 · 2:02

Created/Produced by Kareem Rahma (@kareem) and Andrew Kuo (@akuoproject)

Summary

Slawn thinks the internet, or at least social media, should have a curfew like the stock market. He's arguing for an 8pm weekday shutdown so people actually go outside and play football with friends. The conversation gets wild when he casually reveals he threw his phone away and now just knocks on people's doors to reach them. Oh, and he's stopped masturbating since ditching his phone.

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So, what's your take? The internet should have a curfew.

100% disagree.

You want to turn it off? I want to know like, like the, like Wall Street, like the market opens and it closes.

It's actually not an awful idea, but what time are we closing? Like, let's see, like 8:00 p.m. on the weekdays.

What are you going to do when you go home and laying in bed? Play with my friends.

Play with your friends? Yeah, I'm going to—

So you want to turn the internet off so you can play with your friends? Yeah.

What are you guys going to do? Play video games? No, football maybe.

Oh, like literally like go outside? Yeah, yeah.

Oh, that's not a bad idea. Yeah, right. Like on the weekdays, on the weekends we could do um, 10:00.

It opens 10:00 a.m., you know? I think society might be a little better if we weren't all doom doom scrolling.

Well, I think we'd miss out on a lot cuz like, what if you got to like check into a flight? Maybe it's just social media.

Yeah, social media. Not the internet. Not the whole internet. Are you addicted?

I am.

What's your screen time? I don't even know, but I know it's a lot. I could scroll for like 6 hours straight.

Mine's about 9.

What are you doing? I'm doing a lot of stuff, dude. I'm working, I'm emailing.

Okay, yeah. I mean, that's the internet, not social media. Let me take my take back. Uh, I think social media should open 9:00 a.m., close 9:00 p.m.

So business hours? Well, that's not business hours. That's a little longer than business hours.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think cuz I don't have a phone at the moment.

You don't have a phone at all? So my life has been way better.

Where's your phone? I threw it away.

You threw it away?

How do people get a hold of you? My fiancée.

Oh, they go through her? Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I just go and knock on people's doors.

Oh, that's kind of fire.

Wait, so how do you feel ever since you threw your phone away? I've stopped doing things that I shouldn't be doing.

Yeah? Like masturbating.

That's good.

Yeah.

All right, great. I'll see you on the internet, bro. I'll see you on the internet.

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