Yep, it has absolutely nothing to do with the megacorps hiring behavioural experts to make their platforms as addictive as possible... it's all caused by the big mean GoBeRnMenTs
Letting kids consume 10 hours straight of AI generated bottom of the barrel 3d animated slop produced in some third world country is not "personal freedom"
What is this? How about meth, is that not designed as addictive as possible - now parents can throw their hands up in defeat when little Johnny is a meth addict? "Just so addictive, what could I do?!"
This world is demented
Have you ever noticed that meth is illegal ? And that you can't even buy alcohol/cigs before a certain age ? Same for gambling, driving a car, owning a gun, &c. If anything you're making my point really
Have you noticed how we nevertheless have meth addicts? And that thousands of people die, get kidnapped, tortured, every year, because "the state will fix everything" morons made it illegal? In fact that for instance the North Korean regime is literally propped up by drug sales, taking advantage of this stupidity?
Height of infantilism it is, thinking that strangers will take care of you because they say so, instead of growing up into the responsibility of an adult
I still fail to see your points. Meth addicts exist despite the law so we should give meth to kids and abolish the law ?
> Height of infantilism it is, thinking that strangers will take care of you because they say so, instead of growing up into the responsibility of an adult
That's like the entire purpose of living in organised societies... you know, the law, the police, insurances, the greater good, controlling yourself because your actions have consequences on other people, &c.
Fine, let me spell it out
Drugs have existed since the dawn of time. They are one among many dangers, specifically: vices, that is the responsibility of parents to guide their children away from as they develop. Along with don't touch strange dogs, look both ways before crossing the street, don't watch YouTube Shorts.
The question is, who is responsible for defending against a danger.
The state is not a magical thing. People pretend like it is, because they buy its self-serving stories, and because most people will go their whole lives without ever needing the police to do anything for them - and learning how impotent they are.
The state is just a collection of average, mediocre actually, individuals, who like power. They are human, nothing special, and they make no resources of their own - they get them only by taking other people's resources by force.
Who is better placed to stop a child pickling their brain with YouTube Shorts? Is it: (a) Their parents, located in the same house, who can install software to block that crap, turn off the WiFi after a certain time, etc. Or is it (b), some politicians who don't even know the kid, with no actual responsibility for them and their life outcomes, thousands of miles away, concerned only with their own egos, making some law (that others equally far away need to enforce).
The problem is that the attitude that others are responsible for taking care of one's kids, an extension of not wanting to accept that responsibility oneself, is so profoundly immoral, vile, and damaging to them, that it makes all claimed (false) benefits look like spending a hundred dollars to buy a dollar.
The state is the least well placed to defend children from predators (and in extreme cases, see what the Khmer rouge did to children), and parents are the most well placed - and responsible, and anything that runs contrary to this is in furtherance of child abuse, even if it's called the "No Child Abuse Act".
>Letting kids consume 10 hours straight of AI generated bottom of the barrel 3d animated slop
Is called bad parenting.
Most kids would be better off being educated by orangutans at that point
The problem is that we have to live with these kids eventually and you can't build a nation on kids watching brain rot from the age of 6 months because their parents were too dumb to know better.
Some of the people on that forum would call the switch to compulsory education tyrannic and an abuse of governmental power lmao.
To be fair, orangutans are super chill. If I'd been raised by an orangutan, I wouldn't be upset about it.