• warm@kbin.earth
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      Children cannot buy a connection, so if they bought a modem/router, they couldnt do anything with it.

      This is the exact point, its a parental failure if they give their children access to the internet without supervision. Maybe it’s also a fault of the educational and social systems, for not better preparing our parents to be in this world.

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      more like parents actually parenting rather than plugging their kids in and leaving them to their own devices out of laziness. allowing the state to parent them (and all of us adults,it seems) instead.

      kids should honestly have no more than a dumb phone and limited access to a family computer which should only be used for school work.and light browsing monitored at the parents discretion. until they are old enough to make mature, informed decisions themselves. but the parents should have the right to choose how they engage with technology.

      brain development and mandatory critical thinking skills need to be instilled before having unfilitred access to the most addicting misinformation technology on the planet. thats my personal preference, but i am not everyone. and one size does not fit all in this case.