Comment by 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.
having children is a choice. Therefore, the difficulty of that choice is not really a factor in our lawmaking nor should it be.
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.
I certainly want people to have easy access to contraception and abortion. However, I also think that it's still a choice. I never said it was a good one (I agree, you'd be hard pressed to stop folks from having sex)
If we make laws that make it impractical to have children, I'm sure this will have no consequences for the country's future.
no one said anything about making laws making it more difficult to have children - and laws like age requirements don't make it easier, either
societally having children is not a choice
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.