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In US? Unless you're very lucky with location, and 99% aren't, you can't ride a bike anywhere, it's dangerous and there are stroads everywhere. You can't see their friends in real life because there is no place to gather, and nobody is doing that anyway. Kids are talking to each other on various internets and talking in memes the pick up online. You can't even socialise with non-technology freaks and wonabe amish, they're all home schooled.
It's slightly different in other, more developed countries. But even then, not being able to connect with your peers on discord will cost the kid a bunch of socialising points, and make their social life that much harder (up to impossible) for no reason.
And that's just social life, I'm not even talking about the fact that you practically taking away any prospect of a good employment rising them like that.
Maybe talk to your kids once in a while so they don't want to seek connection with 30 year old maga predators on the internet as a crude replacement for personal connection, instead of locking them up in a tower.
I have lived many places in the US (rural, suburb, city) and have been able to bike in all of them. There's roads in every civilized country, the idea u can't bike in 99% of USA I manufactured by nanny culture. We gathererd at old mills, parks, friends houses. Kids has social lives before the internet so your argument is pretty moot. Not saying lock them up with no Internet but letting them have unrestricted access will lead to poor outcomes.
I will let you figure out yourself what's wrong with your logic without insulting you with stating the obvious