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Why are you allowed to dictate how others raise their children? They don’t get a say in your kids diet or religion or choice of sport.
by alex43578 1mo ago
Why are you allowed to dictate how others raise their children?
They don’t get a say in your kids diet or religion or choice of sport.
- kelseyfrog 1mo agoThere are limits to laws and limiting social media companies' ability to have child users is well within those. If you don't like it, contact your representative instead of spinning your wheels on HN.
- marky1991 1mo agoI don't understand, could you rephrase your answer to his question? I read his question and read your response, but don't see a connection between the two.
- kyboren 1mo agoI'll rephrase it for you: "Fuck you".
- kelseyfrog 1mo agoExactly. Out donate me. Until then, it's whinging.
- marky1991 1mo agoSo, are you admitting there's no moral justification here? It's just 'do-it-because-you-want-to'?
- kelseyfrog 1mo agoDebate won't change the minds here. I've never seen a privacy-über-alles person arrive at social media should not exist. Maybe you have? I'd have to wipe entire years of experience raising my kids in a world of social media. How do you propose I do that?
- marky1991 1mo agoIf you aren't interested in changing minds, why do you comment in forum threads at all?
- kelseyfrog 1mo agoYou've seen someone about face? Please share a link to the thread. I'd love to read it.
- marky1991 1mo agoSorry, but that's not an answer to my question. To be honest, I'm starting to feel like you're not really talking to me, you're just responding to me. If you're asking for evidence of people changing their minds, I've done that, though I will admit I haven't done it in the past page of comments on hackernews. Normally it's not a wholesale change of opinion, but a shift in nuance or a changing of details. But even if I found such a thing, that doesn't answer my question.
- kelseyfrog 1mo agoRespectfully, I'll believe it when I see it. Most of my interactions in age gating discussions on HN have pushed me toward indignation, rather than nuance. It's arguing against someone's hypothetical dystopian nightmare. I'm tired of the game. If they want to affect change, they can do it financially as I am. Looking forward to seeing this same treatment on the privacy folks and how they respond.
- marky1991 1mo agoSo why are you commenting here?
- iamnothere 1mo agoIt seems like this EFF article is suggesting that sort of political action and attempting to coordinate it. Why exactly are you “spinning your wheels” here on HN?
- bigfudge 1mo agoThey do have plenty of influence over the environment your child lives in. Vaccination for public school entry would be a good example.
- alex43578 1mo agoVaccination has a very reasonable public health argument, even ignoring the fact that it has been massively eroded, and comparing vaccination to social media is disingenuous. If Timmy is on Instagram, John’s health isn’t at risk. If Timmy comes to school with measles, John’s health is at risk, and vaccination has been shown to reduce the risk to both Timmy and John.