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When have we ever expected companies to do the right thing? Governments are needed to come up with regulations for that, but restricting which content or how mu

• robertlagrant 4y ago
  > restricting which content or how much someone can consume, even kids, would be touted as deeply authoritarian in our societies No. We have industry-voluntary schemes such as PEGI ratings, and most products have kid-friendly modes. Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime all have kid-specific modes, for example. They're selling to parents, and that's what parents want, so that's what they get. You're right that governments are needed to make regulations, but not that regulations are needed.
  • Arainach 4y ago
    Parents also want cheap gas and big engines that make them feel macho, and to be able to use hand me down car seats of dubious safety. Sometimes what's good for society takes precedence over what people want.
    • robertlagrant 4y ago
      Sometimes, as you say. Even the car seats fall into the not-society category more than the society category. And happily your examples are nothing to do with the call for regulations on the topic of having kid-safe versions of content production, so I feel encouraged.
    • paulryanrogers 4y ago
      Won't someone think of the child-car-seat manufacturers?! The second hand market is driving them to ~bankruptcy~ [buying fewer yachts]! /s
  • richrichardsson 4y ago
    Where is the time limit in Netflix for Kids? All I see is a selection of content that is appropriate for children. It is much easier to set a limit on a device that is cold and inhuman and can't be pleaded with for more screen time than it is to try and manually enforce such a limit.
    • robertlagrant 4y ago
      It is easier, I agree. We solved the problem a different way entirely, so I don't know, but perhaps putting the TV power itself on a timer could work? Timer on Netflix doesn't mean they can't switch to D+ or other.
    • iso1631 4y ago
      > Where is the time limit in Netflix for Kids? It's called parenting > It is much easier to set a limit on a device that is cold and inhuman and can't be pleaded with for more screen time than it is to try and manually enforce such a limit. If you don't want to do parenting, then you can also block access to netflix (or from the tv or whatever) at your router.
      • DoneWithAllThat 4y ago
        While I mostly agree with you there’s an interesting discussion to be had that China also has parents, and they’ve decided that it’s not enough to rely on parenting to address childhood addiction to things like social media. You can argue it’s a good or a bad thing but clearly they’ve taken a different approach, and whether that leads to empirically better outcomes is worth exploring.
        • iso1631 4y ago
          A cynic could say China's culture is to cede far more to state control. US culture is to cede it to corporate control. Either way it's a symptom of parents outsourcing parenting, because the culture in both countries is for parents to work 120 hours a week.
• lzooz 4y ago
  Yeah, no, I do not want the government rearing children, thanks.
  • jayd16 4y ago
    You probably just meant you don't want a nanny state but as stated it can be interpreted as abolish public schools.