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also, why shouldn't children have a computer?
They might use it to get support when their abusive parents send them to conversion therapy /s
I wouldn't even /s that
How does systemd having an optional birthDate field prevent children from having a computer?
It also has fields for 'Real Name' and 'Location' (and has since the 1960s).
you've been defending this for days in every post related to this. They're not gonna pay you for it
How do you know they are not getting paid?
I paid him.
Gosh, it's almost like it's my opinion and these threads keep popping up for discussion in the communities that I'm a part of.
I'm not going to pay you for replying to my comments and yet here you are.
Did you receive the payment yet? Good commenters deserve a lil treat sometines.
You reading is all the payment I need friend.
Where do you live where you can pay rent by reading?
I live in a tiny old, tumbled down house with great holes in' err roof.
Because the majority of parents can't parent and risk frying their kid's brain? Not the computer's problem, sure, but still pretty common...
Counterpoint: it also allows children to learn outside of what their abusive parents allow them to see. I only escaped christianity because I had access to computer and a library, and most kids don't have access to a library today.
This is why they want to cut off access to information
I also grew up in a similar situation (abusive parent, evangelical), but it's a real gamble what with the default leanings of the algorithms I see these days, and I've seen enough kids fall deep into alt-right pipelines because of it. It's not all doom, but I think we were pretty fortunate...
On top of my main authority figure being physically and verbally abusive, talking to normal people and asking my parents questions they couldn't answer about religion were what got me out. I do understand that everyone will have different situations, freedoms, and experiences, though. It might be easier for me but harder for someone else, or vice versa.
so age verification to give abusive parents another tool to oppress their children?
That's openly what it's for
I grew up in that situation so believe me, the abusive parents are going to find a way to be abusive regardless.
Ignoring how impractical it would be to accurately enforce, said parent would simply... not give them computer access to the outside world at all, or just change a password. In my case, they tried to limit access using router mac address rules 🤣