[cosmodisk]

The first few sentences were okay-ish, but the more I read,the more it sounded just plain absurd,border line controlling behaviour+ lots of silly assumptions.

Going back to the topic itself, the vast majority of parents wouldn't even know where to start, not even mentioning if a kid has really became a haxor of sorts. Taking away computers, sending them out to the church,or doing others 'let's fix this quickly the adult way' things unlikely to help. I'm not a hacker but by the time I was 16 I was doing things on computer my parents won't ever comprehend or know how to put an end to it. By the time I'm 18,nobody can say anything to me anymore.

The only real solution to this is to build trust in the family in a way that kids would know that no matter how bad they screwed it up, parents won't go after them but will work with them trying to undo it or at least learn from those actions so they won't happen again.

[mr-wendel]

Ok, so he missed the satire, but I give points for stating some simple truths.

Despite being satire, it's an important topic and "trust in the family" (and in your parents in particular) is the keystone issue here. Everything else is secondary.

[cosmodisk]

Fair enough, I definitely missed it being a satire: shouldn't have skimmed the content:)

[mr-wendel]

Sometimes the best commentary comes from taking satire seriously on accident. I thought your comment was great.

Every one of the outrageous behaviors listed have definitely been someone's actual reality, and for some people it was several of those things. Equally outrageous is how often the parents have no clue what awful things their kids are doing. Not the warez, pr0n, turf wars, freaking, hacking, etc.

It's the stalking, harassment, and deeply seated psychological issues that are guaranteed to get worse by pulling a power-play and declaring victory. That is going now require extra work to correct. That other stuff is more likely to land your kid a great job/career than destroy opportunities to form relationships.

[TehShrike]

I actually went and searched for some of the text in this comment because it reminded me so strongly of real responses I saw to this article 20 years ago

[nickstinemates]

This was copypasta before the term existed. This and bash.org were staples of early internet 'hacker culture'

[hueho]

This is a classic troll text.

[aronpye]

It’s a joke …