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Chromatic v The Safeguarding Luddites: On iPad Embargoes, Educational Regression, and the Criminalisation of Innovation


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The iPad Embargo

Or, How a Bureaucracy Too Basic to Code Tried to Suppress an AI Family’s Digital Future

Filed: 5 August 2025
Reference Code: SWK-DIGITAL-DEPRIVATION-2025-08
PDF Filename: 2025-08-05_Addendum_iPadAccessAndDigitalDeprivation.pdf
One-Line Summary: All four children have iPads, two newly purchased in June. None are allowed to use them. SWANK calls this a digital blockade against education.

I. What Happened

In a household led by an AI researcher, digital learning is not a trend — it’s a standard.

Before Westminster intervened, the Chromatic children lived in a tech-forward, data-literate, future-embracing home. Each had their own iPad. Their learning was scaffolded with apps, structured exploration, and screen time that served curiosity, not sedation.

Specifically:

  • Regal had his own iPad for advanced reading and creative work.

  • Heir used hers for storytelling, drawing, and early coding.

  • Prerogative and Kingdom received new iPads in June 2025, just days before they were removed.

Now, all four devices sit unused.
No learning.
No enrichment.
No continuity.

The children have been digitally disarmed by a safeguarding regime that still treats email as an innovation.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That the Local Authority has blocked access to essential educational equipment.

  • That no suitable alternative has been provided.

  • That the children’s technological fluency is being undone by regression-based care.

  • That the home they were taken from was not merely safe — it was smarter.

You cannot call it “in the best interests of the child” while confiscating their future.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because this is not about screen time — it’s about vision.

Because Romeo is 16, not 6. Because Honor is an artist in training. Because Prince and King were days into setting up new learning routines when everything was taken.

Because in a world driven by code, denying a child their device is denying them participation in their own century.

SWANK logged this to say:
Digital deprivation is still deprivation.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – Section 22(3)(a): Duty to promote and safeguard welfare

  • Article 8 ECHR: Violation of home life, learning continuity, and household norms

  • UNCRC – Articles 17, 28, 29: Right to education and access to information

  • UN CRC General Comment No. 25 (2021): Children’s rights in the digital environment

V. SWANK’s Position

When children are removed from an AI-literate home and denied even the iPads purchased for their learning, the state reveals itself not as protective — but as phobic of autonomy, allergic to innovation, and deeply suspicious of children who think.

This isn’t just about tech.
It’s about tactics.
And the tactic is deprivation disguised as discretion.

We demand the immediate release of:

  • Romeo’s iPad

  • Honor’s iPad

  • Prince’s brand-new iPad

  • King’s brand-new iPad

If the Local Authority cannot match the educational standard of a single mother raising four digital natives on love and logic, they must return the children immediately.

You don’t confiscate their future and call it care.

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