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1. paulajohnson · 1790610990 · focus · HN ↗

   Tell me again about how we need to keep children off social media....

   1. tamimio · 1790612208 · focus · HN ↗

      Good parenting. This is not a technical or legal issue, this is parenting one.

      1. criddell · 1790612953 · focus · HN ↗

         I'll pretend for a minute that you are right and it's a parenting issue.

         Now what? Apparently most parents are bad so what do you do?

         1. tamimio · 1790613710 · focus · HN ↗

            You mandate parents to attend training and educations, in fact, this is done in many countries even before they get married let alone having kids. You make it the spotlight, the current hot new thing, that parents need to learn how parent, it’s mentioned on ads and TV or podcasts or whatever, a full campaign, instead of wasting all these money on political campaigns or corporate ones that brings nothing of value, or instead of funding entertainment industry with who knows say 10bn from tax payers, make it 5bn and the rest goes into teaching and training parents, not just for the kids, but also to be a good family, that’s an investment definitely worth it. There are many ways but obviously it’s the least priority, because it’s in the interest of the state to keep it like this, to justify later when laws are passed that violate people privacy and rights.

            1. bethekidyouwant · 1790614998 · focus · HN ↗

               lmao or what?
            2. BeetleB · 1790615892 · focus · HN ↗

               You start with:

               > This is not a technical or legal issue, this is parenting one.

               And then go ahead by proposing it is enforced via legislation:

               > You mandate parents to attend training and educations

               1. tamimio · 1790618366 · focus · HN ↗

                  Well, if you wanna go with legal mandates, possible, but the mandate I mentioned up there more of social mandate, a social responsibility. And for the other replies above as I can’t reply to all, sessions can be done on parents pace online, this is not the 90s anymore, or through employments, or other means, and not participating for example can result on losing the family benefits they collect from the tax dollar. Again, these are just examples on top of my head, but the point in here that this should be the parents/custodian responsibility, if they lack knowledge or training, they get it, if they don’t want to, they get penalized, but it’s in noway the state to decide if your kids open the PC/phone at night or access this service or not.
            3. cobbzilla · 1790616300 · focus · HN ↗

               > You mandate parents to attend training and educations

               Do you advance to struggle sessions and incarceration for noncompliant parents?

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