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@jane i argue against specific features, that are often included in "parental control"

so far the only thing people convinced me could be okay, is screen timeout timers

what i get worried is, for a teenager, making it easy to allowlist websites and content types, and making it easy to track everything they do with their devices

sure, there is other ways of doings those things, but the easier those tools are to enable and use, the more i saw them get abused

@jane @freya @cas

i speak out of the self experience i mentioned above, out of the need growing up of watching over my small brother, and out of the personal experience shared with me by friends while growing, who did have the parental controls in apple devices used against them, and that's all

@cas

> what would you have them do? Would you rather every desktop environment had its own way to store this data??

I'd rather they, and everyone, waits longer

system76 is trying to get US politicians to open exceptions for foss, laws in multiple states are contradictory, and in brasil there's lots of people trying to change that law as they see how bad it is

codifying an api for it now feels so premature and somewhat dangerous, bc what if what they implement is then not allowed in some other state or country?

@cas @jane @freya

I mentioned here here:
https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B4PU0aMRZdCXV8QAJk

but tl:dr I believe that a child young enough to need parental controls should not be left alone unsupervised w/ an internet device, and that teenagers should have already learnt discretion and have built a trust relationship with their parents

in a good world then, parental controls would just be guardrails for the former, but in the world we live in, i fear how much abuse, well, abusive parents might cause on the latter by forcing parental controls on their devices