Comment by bigbuppo
20 hours ago
And yet as the article mentioned, the "problem" is a lie... an excuse to justify the surveillance state.
20 hours ago
And yet as the article mentioned, the "problem" is a lie... an excuse to justify the surveillance state.
I think the lie is to look at the problems we have that the internet has enabled and say "things are ok as they are don't try to do anything to solve it."
Things are, in fact, okay as they are, attempts to impose identity requirements would make things less okay, and people trying to claim they aren't okay need to be defeated.
Putting your head in the sand from position of wealthy privilege doesn't change the reality.
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If the problem is "social media bad for kids" then any parent that allows their children to access social media is as guilty of abuse or neglect as a parent that lets them play in traffic. Throw the parents in prison and put the kids in foster care. Problem solved.
People make problems where there are none. Parents all around me are giving smartphones to their eight year olds without supervision.
I have kids and no amount of bullshit is going to convince me this is necessary for social interaction of any kind. If anything the "phone kids" are the weird ones.
People are creating this problem. You can easily, very easily, say "no" to a kid. I pay to keep you bloody alive and I will defend your sanity with everything I got because these kids are our future. Being disliked or "hated" by them is the least of my worries. Are we adults or what?
Sometimes I think there is a severe lack of "adulting" lately. No amount of legislation will fix that.
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If you think any attempt at a solve goes immediately to 11, sure, but I hope you believe in nuance or else we’re all lost.
That is a bold statement to make, and I wonder how many more people would be willing to make the same statement whenever these conversations come up on HN.