Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : boraxman
From : Jeff
Date : Fri Jan 28 2022 09:18:28

On 29 Jan 2022, boraxman said the following...
 bo> We have adapted, but we will continue to adapt to smooth over the rough
 bo> edges. Australia is looking at laws to unmask anonymous people on Social
 bo> Media and give greater power to regulate them.

That's not necesarily a bad thing.

 bo> Whether you agree or not is not the problem, I think the trend will be
 bo> to push for regulation and control.

Regulation and control... like banning people who refuse to follow the rules?
Remember when I said to hold that thought about people being cut off from
friends and family by being banned? Here we are. People don't just get
randomly banned. They get banned because the platforms are exercising the
regulation and control that you believe they should have.

 bo>  Je> The world that the youth of today are growing up in is different from
 bo>  Je> youth, just as our youth was different from that of our parents. When
 bo>  Je> was a kid, it was heavy metal music and video games that were going t
 bo>  Je> be the downfall of society as we knew it. I knew how to use a compute
 bo>  Je> (and a VCR!) long before my parents did, and now I ask my daughter to
 bo>  Je> configure new devices for me.
 bo> I'm not suggesting the world is ending.  See, you don't know better. 
 bo> There are people who live in very authoritarian regimes, who just went
 bo> about their lives. They didn't know better.

I would argue that I "don't know better" because there is no "better." To say
that I don't agree with you because I "don't know better" is rather
condescending.

 bo> Humans can COPE with great adversity.  Society will still function, but
 bo> with problems.  It's always functioned with problems, and will function
 bo> with more and more problems.
 bo> Even North Korea functions.

This assumes that social mediais a problem. If social media is not a problem,
then this is irrelevant.

 bo> I personally do not believe my children are going to have a better life
 bo> than I did.  I don't envy them, which is really, really sad.

I don't know that mine will, either. It's never guaranteed.

Jeff.

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