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Comment by duxup

9 days ago

It’s not a parental controls / software problem. It’s a parents showing self control / parenting and monitoring their children in person thing.

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freedomben  8 days ago

How many kids do you have? What software do you use for this continuous monitoring? How do you balance spending 18 hours a day continuously monitoring your children, with also working full-time and being a human yourself? Please elaborate on your personal system because I think you could help out a lot of people.

I am strongly against this age verification, I think this is an absolutely, catastrophically terrible idea. However, I'm also a parent who has been in the trenches. This is a damn hard problem, and we will lose our access to computing and a relatively free internet if we just sit back and say that it's on parents and parents are stupid if they don't know how to solve this problem.

  • widowlark  8 days ago

    having children is a choice. Therefore, the difficulty of that choice is not really a factor in our lawmaking nor should it be.

    • themadturk  8 days ago

      Is it, though? The trajectory right now is to remove the choice of parenthood. If some people in power have their way, it will not only be illegal to end a pregnancy, it will also be illegal to prevent it to start with. If a male and female have sex (and I doubt a sufficient number of people will give up having hetero sex), the result will often be a child, and there will be no safe, legal choice in the matter.

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    • gzread  8 days ago

      If we make laws that make it impractical to have children, I'm sure this will have no consequences for the country's future.

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  • duxup  8 days ago

    I have 2 kids. I choose to limit when they have access to electronics and monitor when they do.

    No software is going to stop kids with constant access to electronics, kids are resourceful.

    It's a choice, there's no getting around that.

wredcoll  9 days ago

Do you genuinely not remember being a child?

  • muyuu  9 days ago

    tbf, when most of those posting here were children, access to smartphones/tablets with unrestricted internet connection wasn't a problem

    but i do remember my parents actually raising me pretty hands-on, taking care of me not watching stuff I shouldn't be watching which of course existed and was easily available

    • autoexec  8 days ago

      Access to smartphones/tablets with unrestricted internet connection is only a problem today when parents give their children access to smartphones/tablets with unrestricted internet connections.

      Cell phones and tablets don't spontaneously appear whenever a child wants one. Parents have the ability to hand devices over to children when they have time to watch them while they use it and remove those devices from them when they don't.

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