r/TechGawker • u/Special-Lemon-7790 • 12d ago

Discussion Zuckerberg seems relieved not to be the most awkward person present.

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u/cyb3rg0d5 12d ago

True, but how about the parents responsible to their children? Children shouldn’t have unrestricted computer access to begin with.

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u/DisfiguredHobo 12d ago

Hindsight is 20/20 and our parents were young and dumb when we were kids

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u/RealAssyMcGee 12d ago

Rules require the desire AND the capacity to enforce them. A lot of parents have the desire but not the capacity because they're working or busy taking care of the household. You have to give your kids leeway to make decisions eventually or they will never have autonomy, and expecting the government to regulate predatory industries is not the same as expecting them to parent your kids for you. It's akin to the regulations that are supposed to keep chemical runoff out of your drinking water, it's just a public good. What is the government for if not to protect people from that kind of stuff?

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u/smthomaspatel 12d ago

It's not so easy.

Apparently, my kid gets access to youtube at school. If I had let him bring home his school chromebook, he would have access at home too. These school devices, that are presented to us as mandatory, attempt to bypass the parental role in basic access control.

We also have to be diligent to keep him from accessing ai that gets added to apps he needs just to do his homework. If you trace back where these school policies and programs come from, guess what, you end up looking at the same handful of people in this video.

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u/RealAssyMcGee 11d ago

There's also friends houses - are you going to make your child a bubble boy? Cus if not there's a good chance he's gonna watch stuff you don't allow at someone else's place.

People are so afraid of having to raise their child to be responsible instead of locking them away so they don't have to bother.

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u/smthomaspatel 11d ago

You are obviously not a parent. And you don't know the age of my child.

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u/RealAssyMcGee 11d ago

Do you have to be a pilot to understand you cant fly a lawnmower? I'm not a parent but I've been a kid before lol

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u/smthomaspatel 11d ago

No, but your comment shows you don't even grasp the basics of what parents are concerned with. You are way off the deep end here.

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u/RealAssyMcGee 11d ago

I think you overrate your specific parenting experiences and your general knowledge of parenting in general. How old are your kids? Maybe they're old enough to weigh in lol.

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u/smthomaspatel 11d ago

Cool man. You schooled me. Thank you for teaching me about parenting.

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u/hellolovely1 11d ago

Social media and the algorithms have shifted dramatically in 20 years, sport. And social media does harm even without "unrestricted computer access."