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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by ceejayoz on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:46AM (#34579481)
> We turned out generally fine despite having active trade networks at school for everything... warez, games, movies no matter their rating, copious amounts of porn, shocker sites, whatnot.

Since then, though, multi-hundred-billion dollar corporations have arisen that employ vast quantities of employees (including psychologists) tasked with obtaining and keeping your attention on their content and the surrounding advertising empires.

It's not quite the same setup we had to deal with.

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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by mschuster91 on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:51AM (#34579527)
Yeah but "parental control" crap doesn't deal with any of that. It's all about preventing porn and LGBT content.
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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by ceejayoz on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:52AM (#34579552)
Modern "parental control" is highly customizable. We use it in our household to limit things like Reddit during homework time, set per-game limits so no one's sitting on Bejeweled for eight hours, etc. Not one of our restrictions covers LBGTQ+ content.
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