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1. tamimio · 1790612141 · focus · HN ↗

   These always happen, whenever you try to block something, people will find an alternative, sometimes using email drafts with shared login to avoid sending an email and gets detected, other times console chats, and now comment sections, and others will follow. It’s why these things (allowing or disallowing to access the internet or PC or whatever) should be done at the family level, not the state, the state has no business to decide how to parent your kids.

   1. pentakkusu · 1790614871 · focus · HN ↗

      Except that parents have no power whatsoever to effectively prevent kids coming into contact with harmful algorithms, sites eliciting dark patterns etc. Parents don't have power over multi billion dollar companies that have their stakes in harvesting the attention of kids. Only governments can blanket ban these things. At this point the responsibility should not be placed on parents but on companies.

      1. pitched · 1790616527 · focus · HN ↗

         A kid can follow a basic “todo list” tutorial and open a port on your home router then get friends to chat on that. In that case, how is the government enforcing a ban? We’re expecting some agency to do constant port scans on all its citizens to look for anything allowing writes?

         The responsibility is on parents. We can try to push some aspects onto government but that will not reduce any responsibility of parents.

   2. breezybottom · 1790643592 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm not sure I understand the distinction. You're saying that kids will always get around blocking software, unless it's coded by their family? That's a wild proposition.

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