There is literally no reason for anyone under the age of 18 to own a smartphone or have unsupervised use of any internet-connected device. Literally none.
You must be fun in the world.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Under 18? Are you serious? You think a 15 year old doesn't deserve a single ounce of independence? Teens should be educated on proper use of the internet, not prohibited from it without trading away their privacy to parents.
My 16 years old will be pretty independent. He'll have a car and a motorbike. He'll be able to go out by himself, experience real people. He'll be able to work odd jobs, manage his own money, read whatever books and learn whatever things he wants. But he won't have a smartphone or unsupervised internet access. Neither provide independence, but shackles to kilotons of the worst quality content humanity has ever create…
Ah yes, teengers with a car. That's smart.
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#13All the sick shit on the internet was there 20 years ago. It might have been a little more pixellated and lower-resolution, and getting it on a 56kbp modem that gurgled and screamed and tied up the phone line was perhaps a bit tricky to do surreptitiously, but it was there. We turned out fine. If I did ever put some sort of parental blockers on my children's devices, I'd try to find some half-assed thing like the blo…
Have you read the piece? It’s not about sick shit on the internet, but the negative sides of social media.
And Social Media wasn’t the same 20 years ago.
Furthermore, the sick shit 20 years ago was harder to find and a lot slower to download as well.
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#14All the sick shit on the internet was there 20 years ago. It might have been a little more pixellated and lower-resolution, and getting it on a 56kbp modem that gurgled and screamed and tied up the phone line was perhaps a bit tricky to do surreptitiously, but it was there. We turned out fine. If I did ever put some sort of parental blockers on my children's devices, I'd try to find some half-assed thing like the blo…
There is more content and now it is in 1080p and it is much more easily accessed.
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#15There is literally no reason for anyone under the age of 18 to own a smartphone or have unsupervised use of any internet-connected device. Literally none.
Spoken like somebody who is not under the age of 18 or has anyone who is living in their home.
My generation didn’t have ‘em and guess what, no one died. In fact that was the generation that invented all this stuff.
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#16All the sick shit on the internet was there 20 years ago. It might have been a little more pixellated and lower-resolution, and getting it on a 56kbp modem that gurgled and screamed and tied up the phone line was perhaps a bit tricky to do surreptitiously, but it was there. We turned out fine. If I did ever put some sort of parental blockers on my children's devices, I'd try to find some half-assed thing like the blo…
Have you read the piece? It’s not about sick shit on the internet, but the negative sides of social media. And Social Media wasn’t the same 20 years ago. Furthermore, the sick shit 20 years ago was harder to find and a lot slower to download as well.
> Furthermore, the sick shit 20 years ago was harder to find and a lot slower to download as well.
Slower to download, yes.
Harder to find? No, not at all. In fact, 20 years ago it was a lot easier to accidentally fall into, even directly off of Google.
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#17There is literally no reason for anyone under the age of 18 to own a smartphone or have unsupervised use of any internet-connected device. Literally none.
Under 18? Are you serious? You think a 15 year old doesn't deserve a single ounce of independence? Teens should be educated on proper use of the internet, not prohibited from it without trading away their privacy to parents.
trading away their privacy to parents.
Right, they should totally trade it to global corporations instead. Did you think this one through?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Under 18? Are you serious? You think a 15 year old doesn't deserve a single ounce of independence? Teens should be educated on proper use of the internet, not prohibited from it without trading away their privacy to parents.
My 16 years old will be pretty independent. He'll have a car and a motorbike. He'll be able to go out by himself, experience real people. He'll be able to work odd jobs, manage his own money, read whatever books and learn whatever things he wants. But he won't have a smartphone or unsupervised internet access. Neither provide independence, but shackles to kilotons of the worst quality content humanity has ever create…
Who will supervise his internet access when he goes out by himself?
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#19There is literally no reason for anyone under the age of 18 to own a smartphone or have unsupervised use of any internet-connected device. Literally none.
What about a legally emancipated 17 year old? What about a 16 year old born in a country where the age of consent is 14 and the US’s views on sexuality are considered overbearing and puritanical?
Then those people can be exposed to all the suicide, pedophiles, and other negative influences as much as they want.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
My 16 years old will be pretty independent. He'll have a car and a motorbike. He'll be able to go out by himself, experience real people. He'll be able to work odd jobs, manage his own money, read whatever books and learn whatever things he wants. But he won't have a smartphone or unsupervised internet access. Neither provide independence, but shackles to kilotons of the worst quality content humanity has ever create…
Ah yes, teengers with a car. That's smart.
Texting while driving kills more teenagers than even guns