>Information diving on subjects you're interested in is one of the greatest boons of the modern age, and I think it's a terrible thing to deny a curious child.

>Information diving on subjects you're interested in is one of the greatest boons of the modern age, and I think it's a terrible thing to deny a curious child. Yes a kid can spend all day every day on facebook or twitter or watching youtube videos, but to say all kids shouldn't have access because some might turn into little zombies is foolish. I don't think you understand the core concept here. See, the most important thing here is to make sure no kid has the opportunity to be zombified by media. And it's true that some will end up this way. So, the kid who is competent to deal with the technology has no intrinsic right to that competence or the benefits that competence brings, because doing so would [theoretically] jeopardize those who aren't so gifted. Therefore Society has a moral right to suppress them. That's the only logic that's going on here. And it's objectively correct: there are absolutely no long-term detriments to a society's ability to progress whatsoever when that society makes it policy to cut its most capable off at the knees.