[techblueberry]

Necessity is the mother of invention, kick all the kids off the internet, and let them drive their parents crazy until they let them out.

I remember when I was younger there was consternation about people believing AOL was the internet. Now we’ve basically all settled into the walled garden.

I really don’t know that there’s any more baby to throw out with the bath water.

[bilegeek]

Until

* CPS gets called?

* cops harass them again?

* the malls and many other places kick them out

* (at least for most of the USA) zoning laws and public transit issues are all fixed?

You cannot let individual families, even individual kids/teens, shoulder this burden alone. If your local malls, cops, and nosy neighbors have already clearly shown that they DO NOT want free-range kids in practice, would you risk the breakup of your family and bankruptcy from legal fees alone? (Assuming there's no community support, because a functional community wouldn't have this problem.) Kudos if so, but most people won't risk it if the chance of success is too low.

[techblueberry]

I’m feeling very William Wallace, you make take our lives but you’ll never take our freedom. We cannot keep saying well the laws are insane so we’ll just let Zuck force feed them mindless crap and advertisements. Yes, people need to become more active in their communities to fight this bullshit.