I'd say network filtering, like already done by schools, would be preferable. For privacy concerns there'd be no need for handing over your ID to see websites, and for ownership/treacherous computing concerns the home router and phone plan are typically owned by a parent so there's no need for devices working against their owner. Mostly feels like just a matter of sorting out UX/defaults and pushing towards standardization.
Not impossible to bypass, but nor is the current approach. Likely more effective in that it only requires compliance from a handful of entities operating commercially in your country rather than thousands of websites globally.
That's the responsibility of their parents. Your reply exemplifies exactly why this kind of thing is presented this way, anyone questioning it is immediately asked why "they don't want to protect children", it's the perfect kafkatrap.
i don’t have kids (yet) but this sounds like a social problem, not a technology problem. You literally need to have parents in a community work together to COLLECTIVELY decide what’s best for their children.
A simple technical “ban” is dumb because it’s trivial to bypass, and doesn’t actually solve the problem. Kids are not stupid, they will happily find workarounds.
For example schools could facilitate this. Don’t allow smartphones on school property until children are in high school - only dumb phones allowed. Schools can educate parents early and heavily encourage a no social media policy at home. The only reason kids want to use social media because all the other kids are using it.
A difficulty I have is a conflict between my distaste for AI artistic output of any kind, and the argument that it is wrong that it is trained on art, music whatever.
That's what humans do. No one complains that another musician has listened to someone else's music. Or even that they are influenced by it. It's how things happen.
The problem is that AI has nothing to add. Somehow that needs to be brought into a cogent argument.
> I’m retired, I code because it’s something i enjoy doing
Me too, but I use Gemini for free in VSCode for extended code completion (never hit a limit), because it saves me looking up stuff I should know but have forgotten. So it's "oh yes, that's right".
Just saying.
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