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"The least bad thing that Ofcom and the Government could do is to quietly let the matter drop whilst focusing on education." This generalises very well for all
by paxiongmap 1y ago
"The least bad thing that Ofcom and the Government could do is to quietly let the matter drop whilst focusing on education."
This generalises very well for all Government. Shame we're a couple of generations into education being about producing pliant workers over independent, thinking human beings.
- potato3732842 1y ago>This generalises very well for all Government. The government shouldn't be dropping things. It should have the power to pick those things up in the first place. It's like a fishing stop. Even if you get off with a warning the whole interaction just shouldn't have happened.
- dyauspitr 1y ago[flagged]
- preisschild 1y ago> TikTok destroys our boys by turning them into trans ??? Do you really believe that?
- dyauspitr 1y agoIt’s a conservative talking point, I’m pretty progressive on most things but yeah I think this one has validity.
- DaSHacka 1y agoNeither of these things happen, but even if either was miraculously true, should the onus be on the entirety of society to self-censor, or on the kids parents to parent properly (IE use parental controls and supervise screen time)?
- dyauspitr 1y agoEntire society to self censor. Individual parental level controls are ineffective. It’s like keeping your child from having a smart phone at school but then they just become a social pariah since everyone else has one. It only works if no kids are allowed to bring their smartphones to school.
- alt227 1y ago> education being about producing pliant workers over independent, thinking human beings. You cant have things like computers and smart phones if you dont have millions of pliant workers mass producing them for you. If you want the technological world that we live in to be possible then you should accept that it requires this concept. If everybody is a creative independant free thinking individual, then nobody is a worker drone in a factory churning out phones, laptops, or the materials and components that go into them.
- coolKid721 1y agoMass education was formed to destroy local cultures and languages in the prussian empire and revolutionary french to make sure people were compliant and wouldn't revolt against the state's control, it has never had anything to do with making people thinkers. This is the stated purpose, and always has been.