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I have used both Google's FamilyLink and later iPhone's ScreenTime parental controls. Google's implementation of parental controls is way superior to Apple's. FamilyLink tracks multiple devices, has easy settings for daily screen time limits, has school time downtime schedules, and has per-app time limits that cannot be bypassed, unlike Apple's implementation which can be bypassed with the tap of a button.

I really like Google's FamilyLink, unfortunately my child's friend group all have iPhones and rely on FaceTime for social interaction, which made my child demand an iPhone as the primary phone.

EDIT: It looks like I just haven't correctly configured Apple's ScreenTime to remove the bypasses [0]. Yay for unhelpful default settings.

[0]: https://www.airdroid.com/ios-parental/how-kids-bypass-iphone...

I think many posters are missing the actual point of the article. To me it reads more like a manifesto against the toxic main stream media (MSM) apparatus that we have in the US.

NYT (and other MSM outlets) have consistently been caught in lies that benefit the current political establishment. It has also consistently suppressed and misrepresented any group or individual that posed a serious threat to it. When caught, they either don't acknowledge any wrongdoing, or issue a non-apology. There have already been several stark examples of NYT reporters being fired (cancelled) for daring to share any opinion not in line with the NYT or the establishment group-think. There is a whole online community rallied around weaponizing the biased articles and opinions published in MSM publications against anyone that might challenge them or present a different perspective.

This is the power that we collectively have given to the NYT and MSM, and this is what the author is hoping we reclaim. For me this became very clear the last 3 political cycles, when I clearly saw the MSM bias and how destructive it is to our political discourse. We are left with no real change in large part because of the organized suppression in our "news" reporting. You just have to look at the difference of polling on popular issues vs. what is actually discussed in MSM publications.

The Trumpers already knew that the MSM is "fake" because they were a dissenting voice that was consistently suppressed and distorted. Now the Progressives have realized the same after their treatment over the last 8 years. The political middle are the ones that are left still giving credence to the MSM, but I wonder how much longer that will continue when the people's voice continues to be suppressed by these outlets and their lives get worse because of it....