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Sure! With my kids it's meant not buying them internet-enabled devices (or disabling the internet access, eg smart TVs), only having 1 family computer in a shar
by mhluongo 4mo ago
Sure! With my kids it's meant not buying them internet-enabled devices (or disabling the internet access, eg smart TVs), only having 1 family computer in a shared space, and managing my own local network. There also aren't screens in the house through the week.
On the flip side, I let them read whatever they want, including things that are upsetting or that other parents would say aren't appropriate, and I talk to them about what they've read.
Overall, I think these policies have meant more thoughtful media consumption, and more time outside and with friends. I'm not enough of a fool to think our rules are enforced at friends' houses, but we've chosen to live in a community that's largely on the same page.
None of this stuff is easy, but as a parent, it's the job.
- iamnothere 4mo ago“But I don’t want to be a responsible parent, I want to destroy the unrestricted internet.”
- inigyou 4mo agoJust like we destroyed unrestricted tobacco stores
- iamnothere 4mo agoYes yes, the internet is tobacco, TV rots your brain, the radio pushes devil music, and the printing press gives the peasants too many dangerous ideas. Shut it all down.
- kyboren 4mo agoNobody has a right to unrestricted tobacco stores. Everybody has a right to free speech, and free speech frequently requires anonymous speech. This is why the protection of journalists' sources is so important, and why principled journalists are willing to go to jail to protect them. You yearn for the end and couldn't care less about the means. But there are also those who couldn't care less about the end, but yearn for the means. How can you distinguish between the two? And which do you think best describes the parties behind this global push to de-anonymize the Internet?
- inigyou 4mo agoWhy don't I have a right to unrestricted tobacco stores and gambling? Pornography is a form of speech btw.
- kyboren 4mo ago> Why don't I have a right to unrestricted tobacco stores and gambling? Because--unlike free speech--those are not essential to freedom and democracy. Care to answer my questions?
- inigyou 4mo agoI don't really see how being able to read Mein Kampf is essential to freedom and democracy.