I don’t think it’s uncharitable at all. That sounds entirely like it’s saying parents shouldn’t be held responsible for knowing about the things they buy their children.
If anyone buys their kid a phone/tablet/computer and gives them unfettered access to the Internet because they think it’s “just a gaming machine” is irresponsible.
I’m not saying a parent should, or could deny their kid access, but you need to AT THE BARE MINIMUM understand what you are putting in that kid’s hands.
How many adults can say they understand what devices they put in their own hands? Practically none.
I’m merely pointing out the huge difficulty here, these things are engineered to manipulate us. It’s not as simple as “well, parents should simply know what to do”.
Your read was uncharitable cuz the comment you replied to directly said they “in no way support this”, and was written from the very first premise as being ABOUT parents who DO NOT or CAN NOT understand the danger you go on to strawman and bitch about.
Again - your reading was uncharitable, it did not try to take the commenters actual point of view, it simply ranted about what you felt like talking about, that they never said.
I think your reading of my reading is far more uncharitable than anything I said.
Double true given that I am not the only responder who got the same impression from that post.
The whole post is an abdication of parental responsibility because people smarter than them are victimizing their children.
There are steps a parent can take. Even something as simple as talking to your kids about not believing bullshit just because of social media. Teaching them critical thinking skills. Teaching them to look for a motive in any message. Teaching them that it’s a trap designed to get them addicted.
But instead, “are you confident that regular parents have a chance of competing with them”.
It doesn’t fucking matter. You have to try, but just throwing your hands up is not even remotely helpful.
Very clearly not advocating that, what an uncharitable read.
I don’t think it’s uncharitable at all. That sounds entirely like it’s saying parents shouldn’t be held responsible for knowing about the things they buy their children.
If anyone buys their kid a phone/tablet/computer and gives them unfettered access to the Internet because they think it’s “just a gaming machine” is irresponsible.
I’m not saying a parent should, or could deny their kid access, but you need to AT THE BARE MINIMUM understand what you are putting in that kid’s hands.
How many adults can say they understand what devices they put in their own hands? Practically none.
I’m merely pointing out the huge difficulty here, these things are engineered to manipulate us. It’s not as simple as “well, parents should simply know what to do”.
Your read was uncharitable cuz the comment you replied to directly said they “in no way support this”, and was written from the very first premise as being ABOUT parents who DO NOT or CAN NOT understand the danger you go on to strawman and bitch about.
Again - your reading was uncharitable, it did not try to take the commenters actual point of view, it simply ranted about what you felt like talking about, that they never said.
I think your reading of my reading is far more uncharitable than anything I said.
Double true given that I am not the only responder who got the same impression from that post.
The whole post is an abdication of parental responsibility because people smarter than them are victimizing their children.
There are steps a parent can take. Even something as simple as talking to your kids about not believing bullshit just because of social media. Teaching them critical thinking skills. Teaching them to look for a motive in any message. Teaching them that it’s a trap designed to get them addicted.
But instead, “are you confident that regular parents have a chance of competing with them”.
It doesn’t fucking matter. You have to try, but just throwing your hands up is not even remotely helpful.
[Edit: eh, my comment was frankly unnecessary]