Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo...
by raffael_de on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:14PM
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having kids fiddle around with alternative means and schemes of communication might well turn out to be an intellectual and academic net positive.
Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo...
by godelski on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:14PM
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> just one kid needs to figure out how to bypass the system, and the knowledge spreads like wildfire.
When I was in high school we all learned about proxies and bypassed the school firewalls. You didn't have to know anything technical after a few people figured it out. Hell, even the teachers were in on it. I remember one wanted to know so he could check the lotto numbers lol.
It's an eternal cat and mouse game and the mouse is going to win. I agree that the right idea is friction but if people aren't aware that there's no clear win that's going you work even 80% of the time then we'll write the wrong laws and have the wrong idea
Example: schools banned phones, so kids switched to talking over Google docs:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hotte...
If we give parents better tools to limit and monitor internet access, kids will just buy a used phone which is unregulated. If their parents even bother to use the tools in the first place (it is my impression most parents do not). There is also a lot of loopholes parents do not even think of (like a web browser on a game console).