Weirder to me is how many of them seem to work as a team or group… I saw one get into the back seat of the car when they left the other day… How many people you got crammed in that SUV making one below-minimum-wage paycheck??

Parents don’t have access to every device children have access to either

Either parents or the school… and if the school doesn’t have a pretty significantly locked down network, that’s a separate problem.

Also, you’re right, I misspoke. While some of the bigger websites have decent-ish parental controls, I was more thinking of device specific parental controls. The amount you can lock-down (and monitor) a phone you give your 12 year old is pretty impressive. I’d rather parents did that than hand the monitoring, censoring, and access over to various government agencies all over the world.

“I need internet at home for work!” - Okay, so plug in the one computer you work on? Do you really need to blast 100% of your home with internet via Wi-Fi, probably not. Even if you do (for some reason), why do you then also have to give little Timmy a Wi-Fi capable tablet at all? Download some episodes of Paw Patrol and let your kid watch them offline…

I know none of this is actually about protecting kids… But even if it was, their reasoning and methodology sucks.

some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it “aged six or younger”.

So there may have been a problem at least 10 years ago. Does that problem still exist? (never mind the obvious “is the problem parents ignoring their kids on a tablet”…)

Josh Lane was addicted to porn by 14-years-old after first finding it via a Google search when he was aged 12.

Okay, now let’s address the parents being the problem. By default, Google’s “Safe Search” is on, and the kid actively searched for porn. So no parental supervision of the 12 year old kid on the internet. Someone setup a google account, and changed the default settings to show those results. (oh, but that person is 25 now, so that was also 13 years ago…)

Almost all of the big websites have parental control settings that would alleviate the vast majority of these “problems” if parents actually used them. Parents being willfully ignorant isn’t going to be resolved by legislation. They know that. This is all a smoke screen to put the entire population behind a firewall and control the narrative. It isn’t even a very thick smoke screen.

None of this is actually about cheating. All of these companies want control over as many people as they can get their grubby fat fingers around.

Good news everyone! I discovered grouping tabs! I’m sure this won’t cause a world-wide shortage of available RAM as I consolidated my tabs into groups color coded by importance and move forward under this new, more efficient course of action.

My bookmarks got to be too many and basically the whole system became unusable. Now I just leave the tab open so I can “come back to it later”™.

I’m started to get to a point where I have too many tabs open and I can’t find what I want… I might have to find the next level to migrate to soon.

“hey guys, you have complained about our latest software, and we heard you. Our next release will literally rip out your genitals and you definitely can’t hide from it. 👍”

Oh crap, you’re right!

Pretty sure it was a blood-diamond butt plug.

Aw dang it, you’re right. lol

I’ve avoided kernal anti-cheat basically forever on principle. On the plus side, there is talk about Microsoft kicking 3rd parties out of the kernal on windows, stemming from the cloudstrike debacle. If they kick out anti-virus, I can’t imagine that they let game publishers stay. We might actually see the death of kernal anti-cheat soon.

On a side-note, it’s a really sad state that so much of the world runs on computers but the majority of people don’t know the first thing about using them. It has led us to so many bad places today that I really didn’t expect when I was a teen…