Comment by dyauspitr
2 days ago
The internet is pretty stupid now and needs to be reigned in so our sons and daughters aren’t wide eyed zombies. Most of you won’t agree with me but it’s true and something needs to be done so I laud this.
2 days ago
The internet is pretty stupid now and needs to be reigned in so our sons and daughters aren’t wide eyed zombies. Most of you won’t agree with me but it’s true and something needs to be done so I laud this.
Chat control doesn’t make the internet any less stupid.
I heard about it 30 years ago
Our parents are the zombies who keep voting for the destruction of their civilization just to keep their housing prices propped up.
The internet is not the problem, the algo is.
With the internet I have free MIT lessons, documentaries, debates on Youtube!
I have access to scientific journals.
I can access every book ever written in the world.
The internet is not the issue here. The homepages/fyp on youtube, tiktok, instagram is. Books and the correct asthetic needs to be prioritized.
That internet will still exist, you just won’t be anonymous while accessing those resources.
My issue is that one.
AND that politicians and the sites WANT age verification because the sites wont have to fix their algo.
The block lists are crazy, even Youtube is blocked. Instead of fixing fyp and promoting non-brainrot content, they rather slap an age gate on it.
"give me a boy until he is seven and I will tell you the man he becomes"
there will be at least 1 entire generation of western kids that spectated short form content on screens since the moment of birth. based on aristotle, this entire generation is going to be retarded. the EU legislature in question enables legal spectation of content exchanged by a generation of the retarded. the optimal path forward seems to be ensuring that the next generation is not retarded, otherwise human extinction will be rapidly accelerated. I don't see how corporate destruction of individual privacy is going to help ensure that the next generation is not retarded.
Why just western kids? Cell phone and tablet use by little kids in Asia is on a whole other level.
The content children in Asia are exposed to seems to be entirely different in nature. For instance, with Tiktok: it intentionally pushes brainrot content for western users, while in China it pushes educational and in general positive content. Speaking only from what I've read on the subject, and I'm entirely willing to accept that I'm wrong about that, but the point remains that the screens aren't the issue, it's the content on them that is.
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I have no experience with the way children are raised in asia and am horrified that this phenomenon is not constrained to one particular region
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Why will basing them on Aristotle make them retarded?
the opening quote is attributed to aristotle
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This is such a simpleton thing to say.
All I know is I am glad I am childfree and don't have to deal with this.
if you child breaks the law and are under the age of an adult you as a parent are responsible, as a parent you are responsible to feed, wash, look after, keep dangerous stuff like medicine out of reach, if you live in a place that allows gun you have to keep that away too.
but suddenly because its a screen suddenly that responsibility to parent goes away?
i'm not trying to provoke I simple don't understand the other side of the argument.
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