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freedombenyesterday at 2:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

How many kids do you have? What software do you use for this continuous monitoring? How do you balance spending 18 hours a day continuously monitoring your children, with also working full-time and being a human yourself? Please elaborate on your personal system because I think you could help out a lot of people.

I am strongly against this age verification, I think this is an absolutely, catastrophically terrible idea. However, I'm also a parent who has been in the trenches. This is a damn hard problem, and we will lose our access to computing and a relatively free internet if we just sit back and say that it's on parents and parents are stupid if they don't know how to solve this problem.


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duxupyesterday at 7:07 PM

I have 2 kids. I choose to limit when they have access to electronics and monitor when they do.

No software is going to stop kids with constant access to electronics, kids are resourceful.

It's a choice, there's no getting around that.

widowlarkyesterday at 4:32 PM

having children is a choice. Therefore, the difficulty of that choice is not really a factor in our lawmaking nor should it be.

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