alt Hacker NewsThis is a fairly difficult problem. I think the internet should be for adults only, like many other things. But we've fucked up by giving children internet access and it's going to be hard to undo it. I think rather than fighting these measures we need to work on alternatives because keeping children off the internet is a good idea, we just need to implement it in a good way.
What about just banning phones for children? Could we ever make that work? It would be like cigarette bans except we now have 5 year olds addicted to tobacco and addict parents who don't want to make them go cold turkey.
Public libraries and schools can be used for genuine research purposes, but not addictive shit. And implemented ad blockers at the network level.
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I had internet since I was a kid. By attacking the internet you are attacking my homeland.
Or we could realize that there are already 2 generations that grew while having access to the internet and turned out perfectly fine?
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I agree with you on a some level. Internet definitely has fucked up children. I cringe at the feeling what my life had been, if there was internet and social media while I was growing up. I did a lot of embarrassing things, but most of them reside in my mind only now, haha. Other wise it would have been on the internet for eternity, for everyone to see. e.g.: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bestsugardaddyapp/sugardaddyap...