It’s a very poor attempt by people who don’t know how to use the technology to regulate it. Ask anyone who actually knows how to ever restart their Wi-Fi how they would protect “the kids” and they can come up with better ideas
One more reason we would do better with specialists for each field being responsible for the laws regarding said field, with some kind of synthesist organizing. It doesn’t have to be a technocracy, we could do it democratically, but we can’t keep going with these 70 year old politicians trying to make laws for things they can even define let alone understand.
Thing is, I think they understand it well enough. This is never, ever about safety and is 100% always about control. They continue to push these bills because they want to chill anonymous speech and destroy privacy protections and they’ll keep doing so until they get their way or are voted out.
Here’s a simple idea, require all sites that kids access to have a second email address that gives access to chat logs, so that concerned parents can know what their kids get up to, and smart kids can route around the issue.
Smart kids just sign up with two of their own email addresses, but yeah, abusive controlling parents will always be an issue. They’re an issue without the internet. Adding internet to it doesn’t turn non-abusive people into assholes, it just lets them attack their children from a new angle.
What I’m saying is, you cannot fix abusive parents without using CPS. The real answer to abuse is giving kids more tools to report it.
Right, but if a young child is unaware of this and they reach out for help on a monitored platform they’re gonna find themselves in an even worse situation.
It’s a very poor attempt by people who don’t know how to use the technology to regulate it. Ask anyone who actually knows how to ever restart their Wi-Fi how they would protect “the kids” and they can come up with better ideas
One more reason we would do better with specialists for each field being responsible for the laws regarding said field, with some kind of synthesist organizing. It doesn’t have to be a technocracy, we could do it democratically, but we can’t keep going with these 70 year old politicians trying to make laws for things they can even define let alone understand.
The least they could do is bring back the Office of Technology Assessment to help them understand things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment
Thing is, I think they understand it well enough. This is never, ever about safety and is 100% always about control. They continue to push these bills because they want to chill anonymous speech and destroy privacy protections and they’ll keep doing so until they get their way or are voted out.
I think Hanlons razor is apt here: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Here’s a simple idea, require all sites that kids access to have a second email address that gives access to chat logs, so that concerned parents can know what their kids get up to, and smart kids can route around the issue.
The challenge there is that in situations with abusive parents the kid is in even more danger.
Smart kids just sign up with two of their own email addresses, but yeah, abusive controlling parents will always be an issue. They’re an issue without the internet. Adding internet to it doesn’t turn non-abusive people into assholes, it just lets them attack their children from a new angle.
What I’m saying is, you cannot fix abusive parents without using CPS. The real answer to abuse is giving kids more tools to report it.
Right, but if a young child is unaware of this and they reach out for help on a monitored platform they’re gonna find themselves in an even worse situation.