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by xvector 93 days ago
Blocking this is the responsibility of a parent. Spend some time to configure parental controls etc.

Pushing to turn society into a police state because parents are too tired/lazy/tech-illiterate is simply not the solution

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This is akin to blaming the consumer who doesn't recycle their plastic, when in fact plastic is inherently un-recyclable and needs to be regulated at a federal level. Too bad the lobbying tricks of the plastic industry effectively shifted the blame.
> Blocking this is the responsibility of a parent. Spend some time to configure parental controls etc.

sure but the bar is low for a reason. On top of that, we're discriminating against people born to bad parents by leaving them vulnerable, arguably furthering inequality. I don't think anything is necessarily out of scope in terms of the solution, what matters is identifying the issue (i.e. the intentionally addictive properties of these platforms) and trying to reduce harm.

Edge cases where people are born to bad parents are not a reason to give up our freedom and rights