• schnurrito
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    4 months ago

    I am so impossibly glad I’m no longer a minor and have no plans to ever have any children. Incredible how adults wanting to control young people’s lives is a phenomenon that is just not dying out.

    As for bills to limit “addictive algorithms” blah blah blah: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence kthxbai

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      4 months ago

      Smart phones and computers in general are the reason why kids have no critical thinking skills. I say this as a sysadmin of thirty years. They need to be banned from schools. kids/minors don’t get complete control. You have to be kinda childish to think they should.

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      4 months ago

      Keeping cell phones out of middle schoolers hands during school hours when they are meant to be learning, and contributing to a community is controlling their lives? Wow, it is no wonder people don’t value teachers or education in America.