article_snippet: The London Mayor ridiculed claims mobile phones and handheld games consoles were turning youngsters into 'lidless lizards'.
article_snippet: Boris Johnson said Boris Johnson understood people's concerns when people's concerns saw people's concerns children 'bathed perpetually in the light of the screen gazing like lidless lizards at whatever depraved and corrupting material their children ' can find'.
article_snippet: But Boris Johnson said: 'I see no evidence whatever that tech is coarsening or depraving the young people of today.
article_snippet: In fact I would say that on the whole the younger generation are nicer, kinder, more well-balanced and more emotionally literate than my lot ever were.'
article_snippet: The London Mayor added: 'And when you consider the very steep falls in crime that we are seeing not just in London but across the developed world and when you consider that crime is overwhelmingly committed by young men you have to wonder whether there is a correlation - a link between the tech boom and the rise in civility. '