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I'd ban children from the Internet and from the phone network. Computers are fine, as long as they're offline. Countless generations of kids have grown up fin
by snvzz 4y ago
I'd ban children from the Internet and from the phone network.
Computers are fine, as long as they're offline.
Countless generations of kids have grown up fine in these conditions. We already know being online is bad for them.
What are we waiting for?
- Avicebron 4y agoWell social media as it exists today didn't exist when I was first starting out online, but I doubt I'd be in the position I am today without having free reign (my parents weren't super tech savvy) on the internet as a 9-10 year old and later. That's around when I started programming, where I got all the materials I could, made some warcraft 3 mods, that catapulted me pretty far..
- snvzz 4y agoI did most of that w/o being online, with an Amiga 500. Only got a PC and later Internet at home once I was 16. There's literally no reason for a minor to "need" access to Internet.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoFirst used it at age 24 at work, learned socket programming two years later.
- goatlover 4y agoHow do you possibly enforce something like that for only kids without invading everyone's privacy? What makes you think kids won't find a hundred ways around it?
- snvzz 4y agoI am glad you agree with the premise that we should do it, and it's now a matter of how. We can figure out the how. Say: - No sale of phones nor phone lines nor ISP's services to children. - No public access to internet for children in schools, libraries or coffee stores. - Information campaign for parents. - ToS of any internet-based service to forbid use by children. It doesn't need to go much further than this. Similar to how we don't feed caffeine to kids. Or allow them anywhere near pornography. No draconian measures are necessary, and we can introduce the measures progressively e.g. starting with under 12, then 15, then finally at 18.