Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Would someone explain to me why it’s wrong to wait until a child reaches adulthood and reads these books. Is reading the books at a young age better for indoctrination? I am a voracious reader but most of the reading has been through adulthood. Again, why the push to target children? |
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If it’s allowed, you can’t keep your children from it even if they personally aren’t using social media. They just need to be attacked from that media. |
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Survival of the fittest.
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Last edited by Pairadocs; 01-27-2024 at 10:16 PM. Reason: correction |
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My daughter says it is terribly frustrating to be the parent of a teen. Just when parents discover and block sites, kids find a work-around. She says it is like playing whack-a-mole. When parents take away their child’s phone, a friend provides a burner phone. She tells horror stories about challenges on TikTok. So glad the internet wasn’t around when my kids were teens. All I had to do was unplug her phone and hide it.
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On paper sounds good. In meantime, most of these < 16 year olds know more about computer than their parents and most of them are 2-3 clicks away from hard core porn. Enforce it? Police Squad will be replaced by Internet Police. Leslie Neilson would have a field day. In meantime Sumter County deputies are ticketing golf cart drivers for speeding. When are they going to start arresting men from using the womans bathroom on a golf course and vice versa. Yes, our legislature recently said that a person needs to use the restroom per WHAT they were at birth and that is against the law. If a male is playing golf with 3 other guys and 4 of us need to go, guess where 1-2 of them are going. This could happen to the ladies also. Our legislature is clue less. |
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These law makers can't be serious, they can't stop kids younger than 16 from drugs, porn, drinking and sex. The cat is already out of the bag do they really think the can stop someone from going on to social media who's already made it part of their daily life.
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You do realize we still have parents out there that think it’s OK for their kids to use their phones in class? Yes, that rudeness towards others is out their and even encouraged by some. They don’t care about the impact their kids actions have on others or learning.
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Everywhere “ There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.” - Robert Browning Last edited by Normal; 01-28-2024 at 06:23 AM. |
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It seems like nobody here is familiar with the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which the Supreme Court has found applies to all states as well!
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How can you even enforce such a law? What are the punishments if it is enforced? Is it really about "protecting" children or getting more money in the coffers from the fines that would be levied? |
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The worst part is having to prove you are an adult. How will that be done?
Scanning and submitting your driver license? Maybe your SSN? Send in a tax return too? Do you really want Facebook to have that much information about you? Will they promptly delete that info after validation to prevent it from being misused or stolen (hacked)? There will be 2 groups of people. Those who cave to this, and those who know how to get around it. |
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Unless a child is provably at-risk (and I suppose an argument could be made for that, in this case), I generally don't favor government stepping in. But in this particular case I think the emphasis is in the wrong place. Rather than banning sites so that KIDS cannot access provably dangerous sites, why not penalize PARENTS when it is proven that their children access such sites? Such a move would take the onus of parenting away from the government and place it squarely back on the parent(s), where it belongs. Last edited by ThirdOfFive; 01-28-2024 at 08:19 AM. |
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Kids can and should be treated different than adults, they don’t always know better. The internet is basically unfiltered for all. Should it remain unfiltered for the more vulnerable youth, or just let them get crushed?
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More government trying to regulate our lives.
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