I think im starting to understand our youth. Privacy is really important for people to feel safe, and as a kid you are not equipped with the knowledge or resources to create it for yourself, it has to be given to you. Anyone who survives this oppression into adulthood is going to be warped in some way.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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OK...i dony have kids, but even if you ignore the anti gay/trans aspect of it, this is fucking creepy, right? Like this seems like an unacceptable level of intrusion into a child's life. I find it staggering that this just kind of happened and it wasnt front and center news everywhere! Absolute clown shoes level of crazy.
Agree
When I was that age I was already "18" when online. I watched way too much explicit content back then. I think I could’ve been in therapy…
....OK?
As soon as the kids are the school find this out I guarantee every single one of them will write queer or trans on the laptop, the system will get flooded and they will have to stop
It's not remote learning that enabled this, it's educational institution malware.
Tldr surveillance software on loaned school computers can be used by schools to find when students are using lgbtq keywords and potentially out them
That's why you never use a school or work computer for personal use.
If it's your only computer, you may not have a choice, and we're talking about kids here, who are stuck with what their parents do or don't buy them. I can easily see a teen in a lower-income household being stuck between a rock and a hard place here.
at a recent job i handled backups and restores for the company and in the process of restoring requested files from laptops you see everything else they have saved too. seemed like pretty much everyone was using their work laptop as their one and only computer.
Porn. So much porn.
And, unfortunately, illegal stuff. Which we had to report.
Joke's on them... I put normal porn on my work laptop so they think I'm into normal shit, then I watch the REA, fucked up porn on my personal PC.
Having a camera in their bedroom wasn't enough, gotta go full on thought police.
Old news (2022) but still dystopian.